virtualisation.vmware.host.enable

This enables VMware host virtualisation for running VMs.

vmware-vmx will cause kcompactd0 due to Transparent Hugepages feature in kernel. Apply [ "transparent_hugepage=never" ] in option boot.kernelParams to disable them.

If that didn't work disable TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE, COMPACTION configs and recompile kernel.

Type
boolean
Default
false
Example
true
Declared
<nixpkgs/nixos/modules/virtualisation/vmware-host.nix>