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chix4mat Apprentice
Joined: 11 Dec 2005 Posts: 190 Location: Canada
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Posted: Tue Oct 01, 2013 9:40 pm Post subject: No GPU acceleration in VMware |
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Hi all:
I'm using VMware Workstation 10.0, which I installed via the manual installer as it's not yet available in Portage. Using a Windows guest, operation is quite perfect - everything works from audio to network and whatever else. The only thing that doesn't is the GPU acceleration. I've reinstalled VMware Tools, but that didn't change anything, and I have confirmed that GPU acceleration is working natively (confirmed by the fact that my 3D KDE effects are working just fine).
One question I have is whether or not "x11-drivers/xf86-video-vmware" is required for what I'm trying to accomplish. I had it installed long ago, but I am not sure I actually need it. I'd rather not unmask it if I can help it, since it has a whack of dependencies. It seems to me, though, that such a driver would be for the guest, not the host - but I could be wrong.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks! _________________ emerge -NuDe world |
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DaggyStyle Watchman
Joined: 22 Mar 2006 Posts: 5909
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Posted: Wed Oct 02, 2013 5:26 am Post subject: Re: No GPU acceleration in VMware |
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chix4mat wrote: | Hi all:
I'm using VMware Workstation 10.0, which I installed via the manual installer as it's not yet available in Portage. Using a Windows guest, operation is quite perfect - everything works from audio to network and whatever else. The only thing that doesn't is the GPU acceleration. I've reinstalled VMware Tools, but that didn't change anything, and I have confirmed that GPU acceleration is working natively (confirmed by the fact that my 3D KDE effects are working just fine).
One question I have is whether or not "x11-drivers/xf86-video-vmware" is required for what I'm trying to accomplish. I had it installed long ago, but I am not sure I actually need it. I'd rather not unmask it if I can help it, since it has a whack of dependencies. It seems to me, though, that such a driver would be for the guest, not the host - but I could be wrong.
Any help would be appreciated.
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x11-drivers/xf86-video-vmware is for running linux as guest, not as host.
afaik, vmware doesn't offer (yet) guest GPU acceleration. there are talks (and code) that uses gallium3d but not to the point that allows decent GPU acceleration.
I know that vbox offers GPU acceleration but don't know how much it works as it is still marked experimental. _________________ Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity and I'm not sure about the former - Albert Einstein |
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chix4mat Apprentice
Joined: 11 Dec 2005 Posts: 190 Location: Canada
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Posted: Thu Oct 03, 2013 11:35 pm Post subject: Re: No GPU acceleration in VMware |
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DaggyStyle wrote: | afaik, vmware doesn't offer (yet) guest GPU acceleration. there are talks (and code) that uses gallium3d but not to the point that allows decent GPU acceleration. |
Thanks for all of the info. VMware does in fact have guest GPU acceleration because I used to use it to play my Windows games (mostly my MMOs) while running it as a guest under Gentoo. After VMware 9 broke on me, I stopped with that and just played everything in native Windows. I just can't imagine anything changing in this regard, though I could be wrong. _________________ emerge -NuDe world |
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DaggyStyle Watchman
Joined: 22 Mar 2006 Posts: 5909
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Posted: Fri Oct 04, 2013 7:56 am Post subject: Re: No GPU acceleration in VMware |
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chix4mat wrote: | DaggyStyle wrote: | afaik, vmware doesn't offer (yet) guest GPU acceleration. there are talks (and code) that uses gallium3d but not to the point that allows decent GPU acceleration. |
Thanks for all of the info. VMware does in fact have guest GPU acceleration because I used to use it to play my Windows games (mostly my MMOs) while running it as a guest under Gentoo. After VMware 9 broke on me, I stopped with that and just played everything in native Windows. I just can't imagine anything changing in this regard, though I could be wrong. |
what gpu are you using? _________________ Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity and I'm not sure about the former - Albert Einstein |
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chix4mat Apprentice
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Posted: Tue Oct 08, 2013 8:47 pm Post subject: |
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Sorry for the slow response, life has been a little busy lately.
I'm using an NVIDIA GPU (GTX 770) using the nvidia-drivers package in Portage. _________________ emerge -NuDe world |
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DaggyStyle Watchman
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Posted: Wed Oct 09, 2013 6:52 am Post subject: |
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quick search on the matter pops up some topics on the matter but with ws 9, might worthwhile to check them _________________ Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity and I'm not sure about the former - Albert Einstein |
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