3D graphics acceleration will be disabled. This computer does not have a 3D graphics system supported by VMware Player

[iamagui]

When the VMware boots up, we are getting "3D graphics acceleration will be disabled. This computer does not have a 3D graphics system supported by VMware Player" message, please refer attachment. Please advise.

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Host is Ubuntu 9.04 Server on HP ProLiant ML370 G6, guest is Ubuntu 8.04.1

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Snippet of vmware.log is also attached.

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glxinfo | grep "OpenGL version"

Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display "34.52.8.197:0.0".

OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 7.4

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Below are the details of our graphic system:

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01:03.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc ES1000 (rev 02)

description: VGA compatible controller

product: ES1000

vendor: ATI Technologies Inc

physical id: 3

bus info: pci@0000:01:03.0

version: 02

width: 32 bits

clock: 33MHz

capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list

configuration: latency=64 mingnt=8

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Kindly let me know if I am not clear and need more information, thanks.

[admin]

There are two issues.

The Ubuntu 9.04 host only has OpenGL 1.3. OpenGL 1.4 is one of the requirements for 3D graphics acceleration.

OpenGL Renderer: "Mesa DRI Radeon 20061018 NO-TCL"

OpenGL Version: "1.3 Mesa 7.4" (1.3.0)

The guest is Ubuntu 8.04.1. 3D graphics acceleration is not available in Linux guests.