The experimental Metal renderer support doesn't seem to work, anymore, with 11.1 and the latest VMware Tools (11.2.1): the Big Sur 11.1 guest behaves like an ordinary macOS guest, with reduced transparency - or is there maybe some special setting to change...?
Being a new installation, I had forgotten to add:
svga.present = "FALSE"
appleGPU0.present = "TRUE"
... to the .vmx: after that and some reboots, Metal works again...
Being a new installation, I had forgotten to add:
svga.present = "FALSE"
appleGPU0.present = "TRUE"
... to the .vmx: after that and some reboots, Metal works again...