Both glxinfo and glxgears show 3d acceleration is enabled and working on the host.
The DirectX Diagnostic Tool in the guest with Windows 8. At the end, paste this on its own line: Code: Select all. 1) Not all games work however Perhaps a community has to step-in and help debug all. Enabling Accelerated 3-D for a Virtual Machine. This requires: Check (select) Enable 3D Acceleration. In Virtual Machine Library, right-click on a virtual machine, then press the option key and click Open Config File in Editor. Would be great if this could be unlocked in Workstation. Enabling 3-D acceleration may cause the host or guest to crash, causing you to lose data, even if 3-D applications are not active. 6 is almost nill, all at that is really known to the entire mac community is running 10.
) Open-vm-tools has been added to the GNOME stage3 and will enable itself if it.
Vmware 3d acceleration is not supported in this guest So others are also seeing 3D acceleration grayed and not able to enable.