Vmware Workstation Nvidia Drivers

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Problem

Jacquees like baby download mp3. When running a guest OS with 3D acceleration enabled on VMWare Workstation (or player) on an Arch-based distro, you may receive the following notifications on guest OS startup:

Cause

The cause of the problem can be varied. However, on Arch based distributions, especially on laptops with both a discrete graphics card and integrated graphics, it's most likely related to the discrete card not being used (or enabled easily). Toshiba e studio 2006 drivers download.

Below are two solutions which have worked for me, for a Nvidia-based laptop (2018 Razer Blade 15) and an ATI Radeon laptop (2018 Lenovo e480).

Drivers

Solutions

Nvidia (Optimus) laptop - older laptops cards that support bumblebee and optirun

The first solution involves installing bumblebee and prefixing the vmware or vmplayer executable with optirun. E.g.

You can also modify (or make a copy) of the .desktop file with a modified prefix. See below (create a .desktop file and put in a folder on you path):

example of a vmware-workstation-optirun.desktop file for launching vmware with optirun

Nvidia (Optimus) laptop - newer laptops with cards that support video-hybrid-intel-nvidia-prime

For laptops with newer cards (for example my Razer Blade 15 with an RTX 2080) you should be able to prefix the vmware or vmplayer executable with prime-run. E.g.

You can also modify (or make a copy) of the .desktop file with a modified prefix. See below (create a .desktop file and put in a folder on you path):

example of a vmware-workstation-optirun.desktop file for launching vmware with optirun

ATI based laptop - allow blacklisted drivers

Now, ATI has much better linux support (by far.) however, on my e480, I couldn't get 3D acceleration working (tried all different types of drivers free and non-free) until I came across this post by /dev/blog.

Vmware Workstation Nvidia Drivers Windows 7

Apparently VMWare decided to blacklist some drivers. Luckily we can undo this blacklisting by modify the preferences file by adding the following to ~/.vmware/preferences:

Vmware Workstation Nvidia Drivers Windows 10

Add the following line to the ~/.vmware/preferences file

References

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