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I have recently installed Vmware workstation 9 on Ubuntu 12.04 & i have migrated my VM's from windows to Ubuntu 12.04 . Now i am getting openGL error & it says no 3D acceleration as shown in pic below

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How Do I Fix It ?

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What graphics drivers do you have? What graphics card? 'twould be helpful to give a specific model. – ObsessiveSSOℲ Aug 29 '12 at 14:56
Intel HD 3000 , Nvidia Optimus .... By the way it was working fine in windows 7 . – Qasim Aug 29 '12 at 15:08
Optimus/hybrid is still under heavy development. Watch launchpad.net/~hybrid-graphics-linux for developments – Call me V Aug 29 '12 at 15:11
Did you install drivers for it? – ObsessiveSSOℲ Aug 29 '12 at 15:20
yes bumblebee is installed ... – Qasim Aug 29 '12 at 15:22

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Add the following to the .vmx file of the VM 

mks.gl.allowBlacklistedDrivers = TRUE

And install the Mesa-libtxc_dxtn1 (aka the S3 texture compression), this will probably called something be different since you are on Ubuntu and I'm using OpenSUSE 12.2.

Chances are this will crash your VM like it does to mine and only a reboot will fix it. Trying nomodeset from the boot-loader then uses the Nvidia graphics (I think - my CPU usage still rockets with glxspheres) which then WON'T crash your VM.

FYI - I have tried this but I'm afraid 3D acceleration support with Bumblebee is totally shite on Linux.

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I was having problems with VMware Workstation 9.0.0 not working after i updated the kernel to 3.5, on ubuntu 12.04. Then i uninstalled and installed version 9.0.1, and added the above line to my WinXP VMX file, and now i get full 3D support. Actually just tested Win 8, and Aero Glass is working as well. I have Intel HD 3000 VGA by the way. – ThiagoPonte Dec 4 '12 at 20:24
I have a system76 laptop with on board Intel graphics 4000 and was getting this error. Added the line gave me a warning, but it worked...just tested directX 3D support. – HDave Apr 2 at 4:35
+1 ..... no crashing till now ... – Qasim Apr 14 at 11:17
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@Xxx Xxx

I think you're wrong. If your virtual machines works without errors ("Hardware graphics acceleration is not available", "No 3D support is available from the host"), it may be because you have activated the "mks.gl.allowBlacklistedDrivers = TRUE" option in your vmx configuration file. If so, your virtual machines will explode shortly after boot. Try a game and see.

Many have tried the solution you propose and none of them works. Check out this thread: http://communities.vmware.com/message/2104179#2104179

Moreover, if you see there errors, YOU DO NOT HAVE graphics acceleration active in VMs.

Note: with Bumblebee (optirun vmware) you do not have graphics acceleration.

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i have posted there as well ..... no aero in windows 7 .... mean no 3D accelration – Qasim Oct 4 '12 at 0:40
mks.gl.allowBlacklistedDrivers = TRUE worked for me. although, before I tried this, I found the following page on the ubuntu forums, tried that, and it didn't work. Is it possible that both of these things together creates a fix? ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1531911 – Benjamin Mar 28 at 0:29
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As RMZ mentioned

Add the following to the .vmx file of the VM

mks.gl.allowBlacklistedDrivers = TRUE

Working perfectly fine

I am using Ubuntu 13.04 # 3.8.0-17-generic

Vmware Workstation 9.0.2 build-1031769

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please keep it in mind its not with bumblebee, only with intel hd 300 – Qasim Apr 14 at 11:20

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