VMware Workstation - Hardware graphics acceleration is not available - Fix.

January 7, 2021•118 words

Error message when booting VM:

Hardware graphics acceleration is not available

As a result, this virtual machine may experience very low graphics performance. >Follow the instructions provided by your graphics card vendor or Linux distribution in >order to update your computer's OpenGL drivers.

Checks

Check that you have OpenGL acceleration on your host.

glxinfo | grep direct

expected output :

Direct rendering: yes

Fix:

Edit the file ~/.vmware/preferences and look for a line that starts with "mks.gl.allowBlacklistedDrivers", if it is not present - you can add it into the file.

mks.gl.allowBlacklistedDrivers = "TRUE"

Info taken from this AskUbuntu thread.

Internet archive address here.

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