

Then at a terminal did sudo apt-get update & sudo apt-get upgrade -y.Did sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-$(uname -r) at a terminal,.The second answer I followed as closely as possible. I've followed the instructions at this Ask Ubuntu post as closely as possible as the question is nearly the same as mine although my hardware is different.Īnswer 1 regarding setting mks.gl.allowBlacklistedDrivers = TRUE in my vmx configuration file causes the VM to crash when it starts.

I've read through this VMware forum thread, but again the hardware in the post is different (nVidia). Hardware graphics acceleration is not available.No 3D support is available from the host.Starting the Windows 7 guest in VMware throws the following errors:

Video: Intel Sandybridge Mobile x86/MMX/SSE2 I cannot for the life of me enable 3D support in VMWare 9 guests. I/O warning : failed to load external entity "/etc/vmware/hostd/proxy.I have been working at this problem for 2 days now.

(vmplayer:4747): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "murrine", Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module": libcanberra-gtk-module.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Vmware-modconfig:4752): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "murrine", (vmware-modconfig:4752): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "murrine", Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "unity-gtk-module": libunity-gtk-module.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "atk-bridge": /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libatspi.so.0: undefined symbol: g_type_class_adjust_private_offset Subsystem: PC Partner Limited / Sapphire Technology Device I have AMD RX480 8gig GPU with amd drivers sudo lspci -knn | grep -A2 VGAĠ2:00.0 VGA compatible controller : Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. And every guest i run complains that "No 3d support is available from the host" and "Hardware graphics acceleration is not available" "Accelerate 3D graphics is checked off in the player. So I'm running VMware Workstation 12 Player on 16.04 host.
