Graphics card of host not detected in virtual machine

[Rorrr]

Hi,

I have a host with the most recent version of VmWare Pro 16 (with a 3070 grafics card).

But in a Virtual machine (Windows 10) the card seems not to be detected:

• MeshLab 2020 shows "unrecoginzed card"
• device manager shows "VMWARE SVGA 3D"

Although the log of this machine contains "3070" (see listing at the end), where it seems to be detected.

Do I have to activate the card in the settings of the VM? Do I have to rename somehow the grafics card, so that the software MeshLab can find it?

Thank you for any help and sugegstions.

Log-Listing:

2022-10-05T07:19:27.810Z In(05) mks DXGIPresentation: `NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070` vendor=0x10de device=0x2488 revision=161
2022-10-05T07:19:27.810Z In(05) mks DXGIPresentation: video=8043MB system=0MB shared=16268MB
2022-10-05T07:19:27.811Z In(05) mks DXGIPresentation: LOCAL budget 7275M usage 0M avail 3765M res 0M
2022-10-05T07:19:27.811Z In(05) mks DXGIPresentation: NON-LOCAL budget 15500M usage 0M avail 7878M res 0M
2022-10-05T07:19:27.889Z In(05) mks DXGIPresentation: Using device unknown; adapter `NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070`
2022-10-05T07:19:27.889Z In(05) mks DXGIPresentation: Enumerating adapter 1
2022-10-05T07:19:27.889Z In(05) mks DXGIPresentation: `NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070` vendor=0x10de device=0x2488 revision=161
2022-10-05T07:19:27.889Z In(05) mks DXGIPresentation: video=8043MB system=0MB shared=16268MB
2022-10-05T07:19:27.889Z In(05) mks DXGIPresentation: LOCAL budget 7275M usage 4M avail 3765M res 0M
2022-10-05T07:19:27.889Z In(05) mks DXGIPresentation: NON-LOCAL budget 15500M usage 0M avail 7878M res 0M
2022-10-05T07:19:27.889Z In(05) mks DXGIPresentation: Enumerating adapter 2
2022-10-05T07:19:27.889Z In(05) mks DXGIPresentation: `Microsoft Basic Render Driver` vendor=0x1414 device=0x008c revision=0
2022-10-05T07:19:27.889Z In(05) mks DXGIPresentation: video=0MB system=0MB shared=16268MB
2022-10-05T07:19:27.889Z In(05) mks DXGIPresentation: LOCAL budget 15500M usage 0M avail 7878M res 0M
2022-10-05T07:19:27.889Z In(05) mks DXGIPresentation: NON-LOCAL budget 0M usage 0M avail 0M res 0M
2022-10-05T07:19:27.890Z In(05) mks DXGIPresentation: NVIDIA driver version 516.59 (branch r515_00)

[wila]

Hi,

There is no pass-through of the graphics card to the VM.
The VM only sees virtualized hardware. It never gets direct access to your graphics adapter, instead it sees a virtualized graphics card that then renders on the hardware GPU.

For a more detailed explanation on how this works see this document: https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Fusion-Documents/Frequently-Asked-Questions-about-VMware-Fu... near the bottom at the "Virtual Hardware" section.

--
Wil

[Rorrr]

Thank you wila for your swift response.

Before I sent my first post, I went through different other posts on this matter, which let me think, this dedication of hardware is possible (e.g. using more than one graphics card and dedicate one to a certain VM) - seems, that their problems were based on the question, how VmWare Pro can access the graphics card on the host. And this is not the problem with my installation.

So: following the explanation in your link, this is more the question, how I can tell Meshlab, that the "VMWare SVGA 3D" GC of the device manager is a valid graphics card, which it should use.

Maybe someone has a idea here?

[RDPetruska · Accepted solution]

Have you installed the VMware Tools in the guest?  These contain, among other things, the device drivers for the emulated hardware.

[Rorrr · Accepted solution]

vDPetruska, thank you, this was a hint in the right direction. I updated the VmWare Tools now and suddenly MeshLab works well (it still shows the "Unrecognized Card" message, but seems to accept the driver now).

Problem solved.