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I am trying to enable hardware accelerated 3D graphics in a Win 8.1 VM in VMware Workstation 10.0.3 on Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS (Trusty Tahr) to play the game Smite smoothly. I have checked that the HW acceleration works in Ubuntu:

$ /usr/lib/nux/unity_support_test -p
OpenGL vendor string:   Intel Open Source Technology Center
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Intel(R) Haswell Mobile 
OpenGL version string:  3.0 Mesa 10.2.2

Not software rendered:    yes
Not blacklisted:          yes
GLX fbconfig:             yes
GLX texture from pixmap:  yes
GL npot or rect textures: yes
GL vertex program:        yes
GL fragment program:      yes
GL vertex buffer object:  yes
GL framebuffer object:    yes
GL version is 1.4+:       yes

Unity 3D supported:       yes

In VMware Workstation, on the VM under "Virtual Machine Settings" -> "Display" -> "Accelerate 3D Graphics" is checked.

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But while booting the VM, it says "No 3D support is available from the host".

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How comes VMware does not detect HW 3D acceleration? How can I fix this?

Thanks!

MadMike
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Siemen
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Edit the file ~/.vmware/preferences and look for a line that starts with mks.gl.allowBlacklistedDrivers, if it is not present - you can add it into the file.

This should be changed to mks.gl.allowBlacklistedDrivers = "TRUE" (note the double quotes around TRUE)

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Charles Green
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Add mks.gl.allowBlacklistedDrivers = "TRUE" in the .vmx file.

It has worked for Linux Mint Cinnamon as host with kernel 3.16 and Debian 8.2 Cinnamon as guest.

Amandeep Dhindsa
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If you are using dual graphics cards, the warning implies that the independent graphics card is not available for VMware. Setting mks.gl.allowBlacklistedDrivers indeed solves the problem, but a better way to solve this is to run VMware via:

optirun /usr/bin/vmware

Or, for convenience, you can change your .desktop file and use /usr/bin/optirun /usr/bin/vmware %U as the command.

This solution provides better performance.

See https://www.tiger2doudou.com/doku.php?id=linux:tools:virtualize:vmware_3d_hw_acceleration_with_bumblebee

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