VMWare used to be pretty awesome. It was fast and just felt like it was a better application than Parallels Desktop. Then came Yosemite and El Capitan. Under both of these OSX versions, my late 2013 retina MacBookPro is practically unusable when trying to run a VM for any kind of productive work. For me, that's Visual Studio 2015. Graphically it's terrible. It's slow, animations stutter and God help you if you try to resize a Chrome window.
The response I got from a random VMWare twitter account was "have you mentioned this in the forums" and "we've never run into any of those issues". I find that hard to believe, unless your test surface includes a Mac Pro and, well we're done with testing.
I even naively updated to 8.1 pro in the hope that perhaps something had been done graphically - as it was a bullet point (being faster graphics). Meh, still terrible.
I have two choices, run in boot camp or buy parallels - which I don't really want to do.
I can furnish any additional details you might require outside of what I already have.
i7 @2.3GHz
16GB RAM
512GB super fast SSD
Various toggles and switches and VM configs do nothing appreciable other than deflate my will to continue to use this product.
Thank you for whatever you can help with.
Brian Lewis