How can I enable GPU acceleration in VM?

[WhiteKnight]

Does Workstation 11 provide any GPU acceleration in VMs?

All programs I'm running in a VM tell me that no GPU acceleration is available at all.

For example, here's the output of GPUSniffer.exe, included with Adobe PremierePro:

C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Premiere Pro CS6>GPUSniffer.exe

LoadLibrary "n" failed!

LoadLibrary "n" failed!

--- OpenGL Info ---

Vendor: Microsoft Corporation

Renderer: GDI Generic

OpenGL Version: 1.1.0

GLSL Version: Unknown

Monitors: 1

Monitor 0 properties -

   Size: (0, 0, 1920, 1200)

   Max texture size: 1024

   Supports non-power of two: 0

   Shaders 444: 0

   Shaders 422: 0

   Shaders 420: 0

--- GPU Computation Info ---

Did not find any devices that support GPU computation.

C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Premiere Pro CS6>

[TracyHuang · Accepted solution]

Would you please provide more details so that we can make clear what's happened for your case?

1. What's the host and guest OS?

2. Is the VM new installed OS after you installing Workstation 11? If it's exist VM, you should install bundled vmware tools with WS11. And before power on the VM, please make sure you choose the Accelerate 3D graphics and select the recommended graphics memory (setting --> display).

[WhiteKnight]

Thank you for replying, Tracy.

Setting the Accelerate 3D option actually resolved the problem.

Here's the new result:

C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Premiere Pro CS6>GPUSniffer.exe

LoadLibrary "n" failed!

LoadLibrary "n" failed!

--- OpenGL Info ---

Vendor: VMware, Inc.

Renderer: Gallium 0.4 on SVGA3D; build: RELEASE;

OpenGL Version: 2.1 Mesa 10.0 (git-5da4fa2)

GLSL Version: 1.20

Monitors: 1

Monitor 0 properties -

   Size: (0, 0, 1920, 1200)

   Max texture size: 16384

   Supports non-power of two: 1

   Shaders 444: 1

   Shaders 422: 1

   Shaders 420: 1

--- GPU Computation Info ---

Did not find any devices that support GPU computation.

C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe Premiere Pro CS6>

I don't know why I missed setting this option right from the start. Usually I activate it every time I set up a new VM.

Just for the records, here's my configuration:

Host: Windows 7/64, Workstation 11

Guest: Windows Server 2008 R2, created with Workstation 10, VMware Tools updated