Enabling 3D Acceleration In VMware. I'm running Vmware Fusion virtualization Windows XP Pro on a Mac OS X operating system. How do I enable Direct3D acceleration? How do I install proper drivers so the VMWare can make use of the Mac's video card? I'm not able to play games inside the VMWare.
Hi Guys,
I just downloaded macOS High Sierra 10.13.5 and installed it as a guest in VMWare Workstation. It got installed and runs fine.
However, the graphics are quite choppy. My macOS VM has:
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4GB Ram
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4 core processors.
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Only 128MB graphics memory. Why!??
I want to allocate more memory to graphics. Things that I have tried:
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Edited the .vmx file and set the svga.vRamsize to 1GB in bytes
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Went to Virtual Machine Settings > Display > Enable 3D acceleration and selected 1 GB graphics memory
Ofcos, every time I changed these paramameters, I rebooted macOS VM. But nothing worked.
Can anyone suggest a way to increase graphics memory in macOS on VMWare Workstation?
![Vmware Vmware](https://i2.wp.com/www.geekrar.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Fix-macOS-Mojave-Problems-on-Virtual-Machine.jpg?fit=1017%2C707&ssl=1)
I have recently installed Vmware workstation 9 on Ubuntu 12.04 & i have migrated my VM's from windows to Ubuntu 12.04 . Now i am getting openGL error & it says no 3D acceleration as shown in pic below
How Do I Fix It ?
3 Answers
Add the following to the .vmx file of the VM
Next, install the Mesa-libtxc_dxtn1
(aka the S3 texture compression), this will probably called something be different since you are on Ubuntu and I'm using OpenSUSE 12.2.
Chances are this will crash your VM like it does to mine and only a reboot will fix it. Trying nomodeset
from the boot-loader then uses the Nvidia graphics (I think - my CPU usage still rockets with glxspheres
) which then WON'T crash your VM.
FYI - I have tried this but I'm afraid 3D acceleration support with Bumblebee is totally shite on Linux.
Installing Intel Driver Fixed Vmware 3D Acceleration https://01.org/linuxgraphics/downloads
Also install VA-API (Hardware Acceleration For Intel / AMD GPUs) Is there a power saving application similar to Jupiter?
No need to do any tweaks
![Graphics Graphics](https://cnet4.cbsistatic.com/img/PkwKMaTZbLOHX_uYvC1gYMuefGM=/fit-in/570x0/2012/08/23/01b4e776-fdbe-11e2-8c7c-d4ae52e62bcc/Mission-Control-Widescreen-580x363.jpg)
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I think you're wrong. If your virtual machines works without errors ('Hardware graphics acceleration is not available', 'No 3D support is available from the host'), it may be because you have activated the 'mks.gl.allowBlacklistedDrivers = TRUE' option in your vmx configuration file. If so, your virtual machines will explode shortly after boot. Try a game and see.
Many have tried the solution you propose and none of them works. Check out this thread:http://communities.vmware.com/message/2104179#2104179
Moreover, if you see there errors, YOU DO NOT HAVE graphics acceleration active in VMs.
Note: with Bumblebee (optirun vmware) you do not have graphics acceleration.
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