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Vulkan

The program asks for the technology of the Vulkan, does VMware Workstation Pro support this technology? If not, then what to do?

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Scillonian
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The program asks for the technology of the Vulkan, does VMware Workstation Pro support this technology?

You will be more likely to get a response from the community if you can explain in more detail what The program is, what Vulkan is, and why The program needs it.

The version of VMware Workstaion, the host operating system, and the guest operating system would also be helpful.

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Animelubitel
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No need to answer, if you do not even know the technology of the Vulkan or write that you do not know

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wila
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Hi,

At the moment there has never been a mention of official support for Vulkan, so I'm pretty sure that there is no official support yet.

So far I have not even seen anybody ask it here at the forums either, you are the first AFAIK (yay!)

The wikipedia page mentions that it should work on all graphics adapters that support OpenGL ES 3.1 or OpenGL 4.x and up.

( Vulkan (API) - Wikipedia  )

Not sure if that's indeed correct.

I think the best chance of this working is going to be in the preview release.

Workstation Tech Preview

as that has the latest updates to the graphics stack.

If you want to test and see if it works, then test with a recent OS, latest virtual hardware and 3D enabled.

In your case I would also ask at that forum again to see if there's an official statement on support for Vulkan.

Hope this helps,

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Wil

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Animelubitel
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Thank you very much, I'll try

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Zongmin
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It took us some time to deliver this feature... VMware Workstation Tech Preview 20H2 July now have Vulkan support - VMware Workstation Tech Preview 20H2 July User Guide

VMware Workstation Team

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