Ubuntu-20.4-Enable-VMWare-3D

Enable 3D Hardware graphics acceleration for VMWare Workstation on Ubuntu

Test3D Hardware graphic acceleration is enable on Ubuntu

To test if 3D Hardware graphic acceleration is enable on Ubuntu, you will have to install mesa-utils

sudo apt-get install mesa-utils

After you have mesa-utils installed, run glxinfo and look for “direct rendering” line (hardware acceleration)

sudo glxinfo | grep "direct rendering"

If the output is “yes” then hardware acceleration is enabled already in your Ubuntu system.

Enable 3D Hardware graphics acceleration for VMWare Workstation globally

$ sudo nano /etc/vmware/config

Add the same line to the end of vmware global configure file

mks.gl.allowBlacklistedDrivers = TRUE

Enable 3D Hardware graphics acceleration for VMWare Workstation per Linux’s User

Edit vmware’s preferences file for your specific Linux’s user, make sure the current working directory is at /home/yourusername (replace yourusername with your actual user name). You can check your current working directory by using pwd command

$ pwd

To change your current working directory (replace yourusername with your actual user name) & edit vmware’s preferences file

$ cd /home/yourusername

$ nano .vmware/preferences

add this line to the end preferences file

mks.gl.allowBlacklistedDrivers = "TRUE"