{"id":2464,"date":"2018-02-27T16:08:14","date_gmt":"2018-02-27T14:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/?p=2464"},"modified":"2021-05-15T11:46:36","modified_gmt":"2021-05-15T09:46:36","slug":"allow-blacklisted-vmware-workstation-player-graphics-driver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/?p=2464","title":{"rendered":"Allow blacklisted VMWare Workstation Player graphics driver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For some reason, VMWare decided to blacklist some graphics drivers for their <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/VMware_Workstation_Player\">VMware Workstation Player<\/a>. That includes the Mesa DRI drivers for most Intel IGPs, which results in unbearably slow graphic performance and potentially error messages such as &#8220;Hardware graphics acceleration is not available&#8221; or &#8220;No 3D support is available from the host&#8221; when starting a virtual machine<\/p>\n<p><center><div id=\"wp-image-2465\" style=\"width: 751px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a data-rokbox href=\"wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/VMWare-Player-blacklisted-driver.png\" data-rokbox-album=\"p2464\" data-rokbox-caption=\"VMWare Workstation Player showing error message due to blacklisted driver\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"741\" height=\"682\" aria-describedby=\"caption-wp-image-2465\" src=\"wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/VMWare-Player-blacklisted-driver.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/VMWare-Player-blacklisted-driver.png 741w, https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/VMWare-Player-blacklisted-driver-550x506.png 550w, https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/VMWare-Player-blacklisted-driver-624x574.png 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 741px) 100vw, 741px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-wp-image-2465\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">VMWare Workstation Player showing error message due to blacklisted driver<\/p><\/div><\/center><\/p>\n<p>To enable hardware 3D acceleration for blacklisted drivers, the option <strong><em>mks.gl.allowBlacklistedDrivers<\/em><\/strong> needs to be enabled:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"brush: plain; highlight: [2]; title: ~\/.vmware\/preferences; notranslate\" title=\"~\/.vmware\/preferences\">\r\n...\r\nmks.gl.allowBlacklistedDrivers = TRUE\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>This can either be done globally in <em>\/etc\/vmware\/config<\/em>, on a per-user basis in <em>~\/.vmware\/preferences<\/em> or for each individual VM in the corresponding <em>.vmx<\/em> file.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For some reason, VMWare decided to blacklist some graphics drivers for their VMware Workstation Player. That includes the Mesa DRI drivers for most Intel IGPs, which results in unbearably slow graphic performance and potentially error messages such as &#8220;Hardware graphics acceleration is not available&#8221; or &#8220;No 3D support is available from the host&#8221; when starting a virtual machine To enable&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/?p=2464\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-2464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-vmware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2464"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2475,"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2464\/revisions\/2475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/possiblelossofprecision.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}