Hello friends,
Recently i'm working on Linux Ubuntu 11.10 & i had tried to run MS window's games using different menthods using wine,playonlinux,crossover etc.
And i also give a shot to VMware workstation to achieve this goal. On my research i have noticed that Vmware ws doesn't detect Graphics cards in my case (dual GC Intel HD 3000 & Nvidia Geforce gt 540M 2gb) not even through bumblebee(using optirun vmware). I have Dell XPS 15 with config(Intel i7 CPU& GCs mentioned above.). I have used bumblebee to run my games using wine & it works well for call of duty but while experimenting on vmware i got this DirectX error . By trouble shooting the problem i found that VMware had not detected mt GC (Graphics Card). So i think that VMware team has to check on this problem so that their products follows update technologies & wider support of Platforms & hardware. I'm not so much of technical guy but i think that vmware team has to Check on Bumblebee's method of utilisation of Optimus graphics card or Dual graphics card utilisation to solve this problem.
Advice is for free it's upto VMware's mind whether to accept it or it willn't bother me if they don't care about it?
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Reagrds,
Sunny Dhaliwal.
> and your posting here serves no purpose other than to inflate your post count and your ego
It does not work like that - a high post count only reminds you of one question: why am I so stupid to waste my time for answering the some boring questions over and over again.
Especially this question: I have a NVIDIA video card in my host - why does my guest complain when I install the Nvidia drivers ?
Every new user of Workstation, VirtualBOX or whatever will face that question while he installs his very first VM.
Most users then just follow common sense along this line of thoughts:
1. VMs are designed to be portable from one host to another even if the hosts use very different hardware.
2. What would happen if I start this XP VM with NVIDIA drivers on my host with ATI ?
... hmmm - that would probably in a crash .... ?
3. VMs dont crash if you move them to a different host
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this leaves only one conclusion: portabilty only works if a VM always uses the same drivers - no matter which host is used.
This also means that a VM always uses the same virtual video card.
Which one ? - and then they probably check with devicemanager to find out which card that is.
Devicemanager will tell you that your virtual mainboard uses an Intel-chipset, Intel or VMware-networkcards, LSI-scsi-controller or LSI-SAS-scsi controller and a VMware SVGA 2 video card.
Other users that prefer reading manuals over thinking themselves read about virtual hardware in the manual.
Searching this forum or google would also bring up the answer easily.
In a Linux forum the question number one would either give you a "RTFM" or it would be moved to the idiots corner - have you ever visited the backtrack forum ?
Here we answer such questions - but we may react a little bit bored occasionally 
Anyway ... actually a VM has 2 main options for the SVGA card: VMware SVGA2 and VMware SVGA2 with 3d support.
Then you have further options to assign the amount of Video RAM and the max screensize.
3d support will only be offered on hosts whose video cards can execute a minimum set of instructions.
If a host can not do that 3d support will be disabled.
In no case a guest will interact with the hosts GPU directly as this would defeat the idea "Virtual hardware must be independant from the host hardware"."
To cut it short ... what can I do to improve video performance of a VM ?
- in the guest: all you can do is try different vmware svga video drivers
- in the host: read the manual about modifying svga parameters in the vmx-file and google the "name of the hosts video driver + vmware"
Maybe there exists a better one than the one you use.
Thats all - you are done, no other options, no way to make it look or act like your NVIDIA ...
Ulli Hankeln wrote:
> and your posting here serves no purpose other than to inflate your post count and your ego
It does not work like that - a high post count only reminds you of one question: why am I so stupid to waste my time for answering the some boring questions over and over again.
Especially this question: I have a NVIDIA video card in my host - why does my guest complain when I install the Nvidia drivers ?
Every new user of Workstation, VirtualBOX or whatever will face that question while he installs his very first VM.
Most users then just follow common sense along this line of thoughts:
1. VMs are designed to be portable from one host to another even if the hosts use very different hardware.
2. What would happen if I start this XP VM with NVIDIA drivers on my host with ATI ?... hmmm - that would probably in a crash .... ?
3. VMs dont crash if you move them to a different host
---------------------------------------------------------------------this leaves only one conclusion: portabilty only works if a VM always uses the same drivers - no matter which host is used.
This also means that a VM always uses the same virtual video card.
Which one ? - and then they probably check with devicemanager to find out which card that is.
Devicemanager will tell you that your virtual mainboard uses an Intel-chipset, Intel or VMware-networkcards, LSI-scsi-controller or LSI-SAS-scsi controller and a VMware SVGA 2 video card.Other users that prefer reading manuals over thinking themselves read about virtual hardware in the manual.
Searching this forum or google would also bring up the answer easily.In a Linux forum the question number one would either give you a "RTFM" or it would be moved to the idiots corner - have you ever visited the backtrack forum ?
Here we answer such questions - but we may react a little bit bored occasionally
Anyway ... actually a VM has 2 main options for the SVGA card: VMware SVGA2 and VMware SVGA2 with 3d support.
Then you have further options to assign the amount of Video RAM and the max screensize.3d support will only be offered on hosts whose video cards can execute a minimum set of instructions.
If a host can not do that 3d support will be disabled.In no case a guest will interact with the hosts GPU directly as this would defeat the idea "Virtual hardware must be independant from the host hardware"."
To cut it short ... what can I do to improve video performance of a VM ?
- in the guest: all you can do is try different vmware svga video drivers
- in the host: read the manual about modifying svga parameters in the vmx-file and google the "name of the hosts video driver + vmware"
Maybe there exists a better one than the one you use.Thats all - you are done, no other options, no way to make it look or act like your NVIDIA ...
I get your point about high post count and wasting your time on the same questions over and over. Thing is, no one is forcing anyone to answer the question, and responding to a question with condescension and NOT answering it or supplying information is a waste of everyone's time, not just the poster. Sometimes it's probably best just to leave the question alone, rather than sitting on the site, looking at the most current posts, then replying with nothing to offer besides condescension.
Other than that, I appreciate the information you provided. Unfortunately none of it really applies to my question or the assumptions I put forth. I didn't try to install NVIDIA drives in a VM, I never have and I never would. Like I said multiple times, my assumption is that the virtual adapter, which is used in ALL VMs, interfaces with the current host OS and its particular drivers... that's necessary for portability as well as ease of setup.
The entire question has nothing to do with installing drivers anywhere. It's a matter of... hey, I have 2 video cards in my system because a lot of laptops come that way these days. Most mobile processors have integrated GPUs on the chip, and a lot of laptops also add in a discrete card. It's handy, integrated for low power usage, discrete for higher graphics performance. The graphics drivers for linux don't currently support the optimus technology very well for auto switching, etc., so most of us use bumblebee to switch back and forth when needed. However, switching to our discrete card, or starting VMware with the instruction to use the discrete card, does not seem to make the guest use the discrete card rather than the integrated.
Sure, it's a bit arbitrary, because of the uniform virtual adapter and drivers, we probably wouldn't gain the full benefit of using the discrete card. However, we might see some boosts, or gain some necessary compatibility for certain applications because the virtual adapter does rely on the hardware gpu in some ways, so different hardware gpu will mean a difference in how the virtual adapter works, even though the virtual adapter is always the same.
Anyway, it's all rather irrelevant. Another kindly user pointed me in the right direction with a simple, succint post of a link to another thread currently discussing ways to get this working.
Cheers.
