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macOS 11.1 guest on 11.1 host: no Metal support

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...?

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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...

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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...

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