How I fixed 100 % host CPU usage (Windows 11 24H2 guest)

Dear all,

after updating VM guest to Windows 11 Pro 24H2 and changing some settings, the host (Xeon E3-1230 v3) had a 100 % load on all cores assigned to the VM. There are quite a lot of similar reports on that issue in this and other forums.

I managed to solve the issue as follows:

• Turn off core isolation in the Windows 11 security settings

The following measures, which did or did not help other users, did not work for me:

• Do not use memory ballooning but assign a fixed...

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