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I'm running VMware Workstation 12 Player on an Ubuntu 16.04 host and every guest I run complains that:

No 3D support is available from the host.

and:

Hardware graphics acceleration is not available.

Accelerate 3D graphics is checked off in the player. I have an AMD RX480 8 GB GPU with AMD drivers:

$ sudo lspci -knn | grep -A2 VGA
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD/ATI]
        Device [1002:67df] (rev c7)
        Subsystem: PC Partner Limited / Sapphire Technology Device [174b:e347]
        Kernel driver in use: amdgpu

$ glxinfo | grep direct
direct rendering: Yes

$ vmplayer &
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "atk-bridge": /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libatspi.so.0: undefined symbol: g_type_class_adjust_private_offset
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "unity-gtk-module": libunity-gtk-module.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
(vmware-modconfig:4752): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "murrine",
...repeats x20 ...
vmware-modconfig:4752): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "murrine",
(vmware-modconfig:4752): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "murrine",
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module": libcanberra-gtk-module.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "atk-bridge": /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libatspi.so.0: undefined symbol: g_type_class_adjust_private_offset
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "unity-gtk-module": libunity-gtk-module.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
(vmplayer:4747): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "murrine",
(vmplayer:4747): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "murrine",
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module": libcanberra-gtk-module.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
I/O warning : failed to load external entity "/etc/vmware/hostd/proxy.xml"
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I had the same two errors which you cite. What worked for me is:

  1. Open ~/.vmware/preferences with your favorite text editor (here vim):

    vim ~/.vmware/preferences

  2. Add the following line:

    mks.gl.allowBlacklistedDrivers = "TRUE"

My setup:

  • Ubuntu 16.10 64-bit Host (upgraded from 16.04)
  • VMware Workstation 12.5x
  • Windows 10 64-bit Guest
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