Arch linux vmware performance is bad

I’m using a kde arch linux vm in a manjaro host, and it performs terribly, it lags constantly.

I gave it 4 cores, two threads each (I have 6 cores/12 threads) I gave it 8GB of ram, enabled 3D acceleration, installed guest tools. And It still performs badly.

System:
  Kernel: 5.15.59-1-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.1.1
    parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.15-x86_64
    root=UUID=c1755bc6-caf6-4206-b67a-71c63a99145a rw quiet apparmor=1
    security=apparmor resume=UUID=63c0d860-02e5-4a24-87f8-f4cfee8910b1
    udev.log_priority=3
  Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 5.24.6 tk: Qt v: 5.15.5 wm: kwin_x11 vt: 1 dm: SDDM
    Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux
Machine:
  Type: Laptop System: LENOVO product: 82L7 v: IdeaPad 5 Pro 14ACN6
    serial: <superuser required> Chassis: type: 10 v: IdeaPad 5 Pro 14ACN6
    serial: <superuser required>
  Mobo: LENOVO model: LNVNB161216 v: SDK0T76463 WIN
    serial: <superuser required> UEFI: LENOVO v: GECN27WW(V1.11)
    date: 10/26/2021
Battery:
  ID-1: BAT1 charge: 52.5 Wh (99.8%) condition: 52.6/56.5 Wh (93.1%)
    volts: 13.1 min: 11.5 model: 0x53 0x75 0x6E 0x77 0x6F 0x64 0x 0x4C 0x32 0x30
    0x44 0x33 0x50 0x5650 type: Li-ion serial: <filter> status: N/A
    cycles: 108
Memory:
  RAM: total: 13.51 GiB used: 11.28 GiB (83.5%)
  RAM Report: permissions: Unable to run dmidecode. Root privileges
    required.
CPU:
  Info: model: AMD Ryzen 5 5600U with Radeon Graphics bits: 64 type: MT MCP
    arch: Zen 3 gen: 4 level: v3 built: 2021-22 process: TSMC n7 (7nm)
    family: 0x19 (25) model-id: 0x50 (80) stepping: 0 microcode: 0xA50000C
  Topology: cpus: 1x cores: 6 tpc: 2 threads: 12 smt: enabled cache:
    L1: 384 KiB desc: d-6x32 KiB; i-6x32 KiB L2: 3 MiB desc: 6x512 KiB
    L3: 16 MiB desc: 1x16 MiB
  Speed (MHz): avg: 2793 high: 4089 min/max: 1600/4288 boost: enabled
    scaling: driver: acpi-cpufreq governor: performance cores: 1: 4089 2: 1398
    3: 2696 4: 2974 5: 3139 6: 3654 7: 2727 8: 3054 9: 2841 10: 3298 11: 2223
    12: 1432 bogomips: 55123
  Flags: 3dnowprefetch abm adx aes aperfmperf apic arat avic avx avx2 bmi1
    bmi2 bpext cat_l3 cdp_l3 clflush clflushopt clwb clzero cmov cmp_legacy
    constant_tsc cpb cpuid cqm cqm_llc cqm_mbm_local cqm_mbm_total
    cqm_occup_llc cr8_legacy cx16 cx8 de decodeassists erms extapic
    extd_apicid f16c flushbyasid fma fpu fsgsbase fsrm fxsr fxsr_opt ht
    hw_pstate ibpb ibrs ibs invpcid irperf lahf_lm lbrv lm mba mca mce
    misalignsse mmx mmxext monitor movbe msr mtrr mwaitx nonstop_tsc nopl npt
    nrip_save nx ospke osvw overflow_recov pae pat pausefilter pclmulqdq
    pdpe1gb perfctr_core perfctr_llc perfctr_nb pfthreshold pge pku pni popcnt
    pse pse36 rapl rdpid rdpru rdrand rdseed rdt_a rdtscp rep_good sep sha_ni
    skinit smap smca smep ssbd sse sse2 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 stibp succor
    svm svm_lock syscall tce topoext tsc tsc_scale umip v_spec_ctrl
    v_vmsave_vmload vaes vgif vmcb_clean vme vmmcall vpclmulqdq wbnoinvd wdt
    xgetbv1 xsave xsavec xsaveerptr xsaveopt xsaves
  Vulnerabilities:
  Type: itlb_multihit status: Not affected
  Type: l1tf status: Not affected
  Type: mds status: Not affected
  Type: meltdown status: Not affected
  Type: mmio_stale_data status: Not affected
  Type: retbleed status: Not affected
  Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass disabled via
    prctl and seccomp
  Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and __user pointer
    sanitization
  Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Retpolines, IBPB: conditional, IBRS_FW,
    STIBP: always-on, RSB filling
  Type: srbds status: Not affected
  Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
  Device-1: AMD Cezanne vendor: Lenovo driver: amdgpu v: kernel arch: GCN-5.1
    code: Vega-2 process: TSMC n7 (7nm) built: 2018-21 pcie: gen: 3
    speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 link-max: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s ports:
    active: eDP-1 empty: DP-1,DP-2,HDMI-A-1 bus-ID: 04:00.0 chip-ID: 1002:1638
    class-ID: 0300
  Device-2: IMC Networks Integrated Camera type: USB driver: uvcvideo
    bus-ID: 1-3:2 chip-ID: 13d3:56fb class-ID: fe01 serial: <filter>
  Display: x11 server: X.Org v: 21.1.4 with: Xwayland v: 22.1.3
    compositor: kwin_x11 driver: X: loaded: amdgpu unloaded: modesetting
    alternate: fbdev,vesa gpu: amdgpu display-ID: :0 screens: 1
  Screen-1: 0 s-res: 2240x1400 s-dpi: 96 s-size: 592x370mm (23.31x14.57")
    s-diag: 698mm (27.48")
  Monitor-1: eDP-1 mapped: eDP model: BOE Display 0x0931 built: 2020
    res: 2240x1400 hz: 60 dpi: 188 gamma: 1.2 size: 302x189mm (11.89x7.44")
    diag: 356mm (14") ratio: 16:10 modes: max: 2240x1400 min: 640x480
  OpenGL: renderer: AMD RENOIR (LLVM 14.0.6 DRM 3.42 5.15.59-1-MANJARO) v: 4.6
    Mesa 22.1.6 direct render: Yes
Audio:
  Device-1: AMD Renoir Radeon High Definition Audio vendor: Lenovo
    driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16
    link-max: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s bus-ID: 04:00.1 chip-ID: 1002:1637
    class-ID: 0403
  Device-2: AMD ACP/ACP3X/ACP6x Audio Coprocessor vendor: Lenovo
    driver: snd_rn_pci_acp3x v: kernel pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16
    link-max: gen: 4 speed: 16 GT/s bus-ID: 04:00.5 chip-ID: 1022:15e2
    class-ID: 0480
  Device-3: AMD Family 17h/19h HD Audio vendor: Lenovo driver: snd_hda_intel
    v: kernel pcie: gen: 3 speed: 8 GT/s lanes: 16 link-max: gen: 4
    speed: 16 GT/s bus-ID: 04:00.6 chip-ID: 1022:15e3 class-ID: 0403
  Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.15.59-1-MANJARO running: yes
  Sound Server-2: JACK v: 1.9.21 running: no
  Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 16.1 running: yes
  Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.56 running: yes
Network:
  Device-1: Qualcomm Atheros QCA6174 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter
    vendor: Lenovo driver: ath10k_pci v: kernel pcie: gen: 1 speed: 2.5 GT/s
    lanes: 1 bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 168c:003e class-ID: 0280
  IF: wlp1s0 state: up mac: <filter>
  IP v4: <filter> type: dynamic noprefixroute scope: global
    broadcast: <filter>
  IP v6: <filter> type: noprefixroute scope: link
  IF-ID-1: vmnet1 state: unknown speed: N/A duplex: N/A mac: <filter>
  IP v4: <filter> scope: global broadcast: <filter>
  IP v6: <filter> scope: link
  IF-ID-2: vmnet8 state: unknown speed: N/A duplex: N/A mac: <filter>
  IP v4: <filter> scope: global broadcast: <filter>
  IP v6: <filter> scope: link
  WAN IP: <filter>
Bluetooth:
  Device-1: Qualcomm Atheros QCA61x4 Bluetooth 4.0 type: USB driver: btusb
    v: 0.8 bus-ID: 3-4:2 chip-ID: 0cf3:e300 class-ID: e001
  Report: rfkill ID: hci0 rfk-id: 8 state: down bt-service: enabled,running
    rfk-block: hardware: no software: yes address: see --recommends
Logical:
  Message: No logical block device data found.
RAID:
  Message: No RAID data found.
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 476.94 GiB used: 75.58 GiB (15.8%)
  SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges required.
  ID-1: /dev/nvme0n1 maj-min: 259:0 vendor: Western Digital model: PC SN730
    SDBPNTY-512G-1101 size: 476.94 GiB block-size: physical: 512 B
    logical: 512 B speed: 31.6 Gb/s lanes: 4 type: SSD serial: <filter>
    rev: 11190001 temp: 51.9 C scheme: GPT
  Message: No optical or floppy data found.
Partition:
  ID-1: / raw-size: 467.84 GiB size: 459.43 GiB (98.20%) used: 73.05 GiB
    (15.9%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p2 maj-min: 259:2 label: N/A
    uuid: c1755bc6-caf6-4206-b67a-71c63a99145a
  ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 300 MiB size: 299.4 MiB (99.80%) used: 288 KiB
    (0.1%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/nvme0n1p1 maj-min: 259:1 label: NO_LABEL
    uuid: 1763-AB37
Swap:
  Kernel: swappiness: 60 (default) cache-pressure: 100 (default)
  ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 8.8 GiB used: 2.53 GiB (28.7%)
    priority: -2 dev: /dev/nvme0n1p3 maj-min: 259:3 label: swap
    uuid: 63c0d860-02e5-4a24-87f8-f4cfee8910b1
Unmounted:
  Message: No unmounted partitions found.
USB:
  Hub-1: 1-0:1 info: Hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 4 rev: 2.0
    speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
  Device-1: 1-3:2 info: IMC Networks Integrated Camera type: Video
    driver: uvcvideo interfaces: 5 rev: 2.0 speed: 480 Mb/s power: 500mA
    chip-ID: 13d3:56fb class-ID: fe01 serial: <filter>
  Hub-2: 2-0:1 info: Super-speed hub ports: 2 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s
    chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900
  Hub-3: 3-0:1 info: Hi-speed hub with single TT ports: 4 rev: 2.0
    speed: 480 Mb/s chip-ID: 1d6b:0002 class-ID: 0900
  Device-1: 3-4:2 info: Qualcomm Atheros QCA61x4 Bluetooth 4.0
    type: Bluetooth driver: btusb interfaces: 2 rev: 2.0 speed: 12 Mb/s
    power: 100mA chip-ID: 0cf3:e300 class-ID: e001
  Hub-4: 4-0:1 info: Super-speed hub ports: 2 rev: 3.1 speed: 10 Gb/s
    chip-ID: 1d6b:0003 class-ID: 0900
Sensors:
  System Temperatures: cpu: 61.5 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 46.0 C
  Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
  Processes: 351 Uptime: 17d 17h 14m wakeups: 62035 Init: systemd v: 251
  default: graphical tool: systemctl Compilers: gcc: 12.1.1 clang: 14.0.6
  Packages: 1452 pm: pacman pkgs: 1448 libs: 363 tools: pamac,yay pm: flatpak
  pkgs: 0 pm: snap pkgs: 4 Shell: Zsh v: 5.9 default: Bash v: 5.1.16
  running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.21

It is not really clear what you are asking so I suggest you try with virtualbox instead (with virtualbox-host-dkms) - I have various paid iterations of vmware workstation - v12 being the last time I paid for it.

In my opinion there’s really nothing to gain from using vmware other than the extra troubleshooting when used with Arch based distributions - which is completely unsupported by vmware.

So personally I am using virtualbox for the inevitable need of running specific Windows apps like Visual Studio 6 and 2022.