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Problem

When running a guest OS with 3D acceleration enabled on VMWare Workstation (or player) on an Arch-based distro, you may receive the following notifications on guest OS startup:

Cause

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The cause of the problem can be varied. However, on Arch based distributions, especially on laptops with both a discrete graphics card and integrated graphics, it's most likely related to the discrete card not being used (or enabled easily).

Vmware Workstation Nvidia Drivers Geforce

Below are two solutions which have worked for me, for a Nvidia-based laptop (2018 Razer Blade 15) and an ATI Radeon laptop (2018 Lenovo e480).

Guest VMs use NVIDIA vGPU s in the same manner as a physical GPU that has been passed through by the hypervisor: an NVIDIA driver loaded in the guest VM provides direct access to the GPU for performance-critical fast paths, and a paravirtualized interface to the NVIDIA Virtual GPU Manager is used for non-performant management operations. This driver enables VMware's vSGA shared GPU capabilities. Hardware based graphics acceleration for 3D workloads for VMware Horizon View virtual desktops or vSphere virtual machines. Support for VMware ESXi 5.5.

Solutions

Nvidia (Optimus) laptop - older laptops cards that support bumblebee and optirun

The first solution involves installing bumblebee and prefixing the vmware or vmplayer executable with optirun. E.g.

You can also modify (or make a copy) of the .desktop file with a modified prefix. See below (create a .desktop file and put in a folder on you path):

Nvidia (Optimus) laptop - newer laptops with cards that support video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-prime

Vmware Workstation Nvidia Drivers Installer

For laptops with newer cards (for example my Razer Blade 15 with an RTX 2080) you should be able to prefix the vmware or vmplayer executable with prime-run. E.g.

Vmware Workstation Nvidia Drivers

You can also modify (or make a copy) of the .desktop file with a modified prefix. See below (create a .desktop file and put in a folder on you path):

ATI based laptop - allow blacklisted drivers

Now, ATI has much better linux support (by far...) however, on my e480, I couldn't get 3D acceleration working (tried all different types of drivers free and non-free) until I came across this post by /dev/blog.

Apparently VMWare decided to blacklist some drivers. Luckily we can undo this blacklisting by modify the preferences file by adding the following to ~/.vmware/preferences:

Vmware Workstation Nvidia Drivers Windows 10

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