I am having a frustrating issue with vmware workstation 11 on all my windows 2012 r2 servers.
I have multiple windows 7 virtual machines that are running and they all run at between 0-20% max usage at any given time as reported inside the virtual machine.
I have kept all running virtual machines on idle showing 0% cpu usage inside the virtual machine however my Windows 2012 r2 server host run at near 100% cpu usage even though none of the virtual machines are in use or showing any cpu usage at all.
The host cpu usage keep going up constantly every new virtual machine that I start even if they are all at 0% usage.
What could be the cause for this, I see no reason why the host OS should be using any cpu usage if the virtual machines are idle and if the virtual machines are in use surely the host OS should report similar if not a few percentage higher overall cpu usage that the virtual machine ?
Hopefully there is a solution to this since right now vmware workstation is simply wasting cpu cycles for no apparent reason.