Yup normal…even with hardware acceleration on in the browser you might get into the 6.5-7 hours range. Outside of using youtube extensively, zoom, or other video intensive tasks, I tend to get between 10-11 hours of use. This is on an i7-1260p. If you need longer life carry a portable power cell, or upgrade to the new AMD board. If you want to stick with Intel I would probably wait another 18months and move to a 15th gen board.
Make sure hyper-v is turned off, also check and see if you have any other virtualization solutions running in the background like docker desktop and turn it off. Then try turning it on in VMWare. Lastly unless you are using nested Vm’s it proabbly wont have much of an effect on performance…and really stay away form nested vm’s unless you absolutely need to use them for some reason.