No 3D support available from host

[gelsawy]

Below is my configuration:

1. Workstation 15

2. Host Linux OS: RHEL 7.8

3. Guest OS: Windows 10

4. Host machine GPU: Nvidia quadro k620

5. Enabe 3D acceleration in VM

6. glxinfo | grep "renderer string" on host machine ---> llvmpipe

7. Host machine: OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 18.3.4

And I get the below error while powering up the VM:

No 3D support available from host

And I can't use 3D applications properly inside the VM

Does any one know what is wrong with this configuration?

[gelsawy]

Your comments were very helpful, I updated the X11 configuration and started the X server on display 0 with Nvidia GPU.

Currently I don't get the message of no 3d support when opening the VM , but only when I invoke Vmware as root , when I open Vmware with other user permissions .. I still get the message.

Do you have an idea about this ?

[gelsawy]

I compared the vmware.log in both cases , it seems that as root , vmware keep searching for displays till it find (unix:0.0) display with Nvidia GPU and so it supports 3d.

For the other user , it just check the display I run on (VNC session) which is in my case :1

[banackm]

X11 has an access-control mechanism tied to a cookie file in your homedir called .Xauthority .  You normally have to give the other users your cookie in order for them to be able to put things on your X server, including use it for 3D.

There are fancy ways of doing it, but I normally just copy the .Xauthority into the target user's account (and then chown it appropriately) if I need to share X servers across users.

[Vex3]

Worked for me Ubuntu 22.04 / Workstation Pro 16.2.3

nano .vmware/preferences

mks.gl.allowBlacklistedDrivers = "TRUE"