VMware 3D

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Essay

Essay

After installing Arch, I found that VMware’s 3D acceleration was not enabled.

However, in Settings - Hardware - Display - 3D Graphics - Accelerate 3D Graphics, it was already checked.

Then I came across this Enable 3D HW acceleration on VMWare Workstation 10 on Ubuntu 14.04 solution.

It just required adding a line of configuration.

Open

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vim ~/.vmware/preferences

Add

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mks.gl.allowBlacklistedDrivers = "TRUE"

But what truly amazed me is that this answer is already nine years old.

From Ubuntu 14.04 LTS - vmware-workstation-10 to the current Ubuntu 22.04 LTS - vmware-workstation-17, it still works.