no video hardware acceleration

[Rick51]

Hi I am runninng ver 16 on a vmware 16 virtual machine. On start I get the error no video hardware acceleration check for updates and found none. My host system is runnig a nividia 1050 TI video card. Any suggestions appreciated

Thank Rick

[SMG]

Any suggestions appreciated

Welcome to the forum, Rick51.

Before creating any more posts, please read Section 5 of READ: How To Get Help!. It explains the data we need to be able to help you. Please provide that system data.

[JerryF]

Hi I am runninng ver 16 on a vmware 16 virtual machine. On start I get the error no video hardware acceleration check for updates and found none. My host system is runnig a nividia 1050 TI video card. Any suggestions appreciated

Thank Rick

Hi Rick,

I'm not familiar with VMware, but I do use Oracle's VM Virtualbox. I've had similar errors in the past.

Try changing your Graphics Controller (term used in Virtualbox) to another option if there are any. Sometimes the recommended one isn't always the one that works best for a virtual machine.

Example: I have Manjaro Xfce as a VM and the recommended graphics controller VMSVGA doesn't work properly. I had to change it to VBoxSVGA.

[Rick51]

unfortunatly I dont have that option. Is there a way in Mint to change to a different video, or load a different driver? Drive updater doesn't find anything

Thanks for the reply and help

[SMG]

unfortunatly I dont have that option. Is there a way in Mint to change to a different video, or load a different driver? Drive updater doesn't find anything

Thanks for the reply and help

Please give us information about your install by entering this command in a terminal: inxi -Fxxxrz
Click </> from the mini toolbar above the textbox where you type your reply and then place your cursor between the code markers and paste the results of the command between the code markers [code]Results[/code]. This will let us know how Mint sees your hardware.

[JerryF]

unfortunatly I dont have that option. Is there a way in Mint to change to a different video, or load a different driver? Drive updater doesn't find anything

Thanks for the reply and help

As suggested twice by SMG, please provide the inxi information.

I just briefly read about VMware and its graphics handling. It tries to use the computer's actual graphics (passthrough) instead of having the vm provide a graphics controller (like Oracle's VirtualBox)

Having the inxi will shed some light on the issue.

[MikeNovember]

unfortunatly I dont have that option. Is there a way in Mint to change to a different video, or load a different driver? Drive updater doesn't find anything

Thanks for the reply and help

As suggested twice by SMG, please provide the inxi information.

I just briefly read about VMware and its graphics handling. It tries to use the computer's actual graphics (passthrough) instead of having the vm provide a graphics controller (like Oracle's VirtualBox)

Having the inxi will shed some light on the issue.

Hi,

Your answer may be exact for professional pay versions of VMware, but not for VMware workstation player (pay or free) which uses its own "svga3d" driver; it is more efficient than VBox drivers, since it allows to have OpenGL 4.5 on a Windows guest (provided you have an NVidia GPU) while VBox allows only OpenGL 2.1.

OP needs to give more information about his system: has he a Linux host, or does he run Linux as guest? what is its system configuration (inxi output if he runs Linux as host)? what is the complete name of his virtual machine software (VMware workstation Player for Linux? for Windows? VMware Workstation for Linux? for Windows? etc.), its version? What is the OS used as guest? Has he installed VMware tools?...

Regards,

MN

[Rick51]

I am running Windows 10 as my host on a Dell desktop. Thanks for the reply and hope I done this right

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rick@mint-vm:~$ inxi -Fxxxrz
System:
  Kernel: 5.4.0-90-generic x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 9.3.0 
  Desktop: Cinnamon 5.0.7 wm: muffin 5.0.2 dm: LightDM 1.30.0 
  Distro: Linux Mint 20.2 Uma base: Ubuntu 20.04 focal 
Machine:
  Type: Vmware System: VMware product: VMware Virtual Platform v: N/A 
  serial: <filter> Chassis: No Enclosure type: 1 serial: <filter> 
  Mobo: Intel model: 440BX Desktop Reference Platform serial: <filter> 
  BIOS: Phoenix v: 6.00 date: 11/12/2020 
CPU:
  Topology: 2x Single Core model: Intel Core i7-8700 bits: 64 type: SMP 
  arch: Kaby Lake rev: A L2 cache: 24.0 MiB 
  flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3 
  bogomips: 12767 
  Speed: 3192 MHz min/max: N/A Core speeds (MHz): 1: 3192 2: 3192 
Graphics:
  Device-1: VMware SVGA II Adapter driver: vmwgfx v: 2.15.0.0 
  bus ID: 00:0f.0 chip ID: 15ad:0405 
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: vmware 
  unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa resolution: 800x600~60Hz 
  OpenGL: renderer: llvmpipe (LLVM 12.0.0 256 bits) v: 4.5 Mesa 21.0.3 
  compat-v: 3.1 direct render: Yes 
Audio:
  Device-1: Ensoniq ES1371/ES1373 / Creative Labs CT2518 driver: snd_ens1371 
  v: kernel bus ID: 02:02.0 chip ID: 1274:1371 
  Sound Server: ALSA v: k5.4.0-90-generic 
Network:
  Device-1: Intel 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI vendor: VMware Virtual Machine 
  type: network bridge driver: N/A port: 1060 bus ID: 00:07.3 
  chip ID: 8086:7113 
  Device-2: Intel 82545EM Gigabit Ethernet 
  vendor: VMware PRO/1000 MT Single Port driver: e1000 v: 7.3.21-k8-NAPI 
  port: 2000 bus ID: 02:01.0 chip ID: 8086:100f 
  IF: ens33 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter> 
Drives:
  Local Storage: total: 40.00 GiB used: 8.94 GiB (22.3%) 
  ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: VMware model: Virtual S size: 40.00 GiB serial: N/A 
  rev: 1.0 scheme: MBR 
Partition:
  ID-1: / size: 38.63 GiB used: 8.94 GiB (23.1%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda5 
Sensors:
  Message: No sensors data was found. Is sensors configured? 
Repos:
  No active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list 
  Active apt repos in: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list 
  1: deb http://packages.linuxmint.com uma main upstream import backport #id:linuxmint_main
  2: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal main restricted universe multiverse
  3: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates main restricted universe multiverse
  4: deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-backports main restricted universe multiverse
  5: deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ focal-security main restricted universe multiverse
  6: deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ focal partner
Info:
  Processes: 210 Uptime: 1m Memory: 3.82 GiB used: 809.4 MiB (20.7%) 
  Init: systemd v: 245 runlevel: 5 Compilers: gcc: 9.3.0 alt: 9 Shell: bash 
  v: 5.0.17 running in: gnome-terminal inxi: 3.0.38 
rick@mint-vm:~$ 

[MikeNovember]

Hi,

See here the way to proceed in order to have 3D acceleration in your guest https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Works ... C5788.html

Did you install VMware tools inside your Linux Guest?

Regards,

MN

[SMG]

I am running Windows 10 as my host on a Dell desktop. Thanks for the reply and hope I done this right

Yes, you did it correctly.

VMWare is using its graphics drivers for your install of Mint. Because of that, there may be limits as to how much we can help you because this issue could be related to the VMWare software.

Graphics:
Device-1: VMware SVGA II Adapter driver: vmwgfx v: 2.15.0.0
bus ID: 00:0f.0 chip ID: 15ad:0405
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.11 driver: vmware
unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,vesa resolution: 800x600~60Hz
OpenGL: renderer: llvmpipe (LLVM 12.0.0 256 bits) v: 4.5 Mesa 21.0.3
compat-v: 3.1 direct render: Yes

The llvmpipe means software rendering is happening. Cinnamon checks to see whether hardware rendering is happening and alerts the user when it is not.

Let us know if the link MikeNovember provided helps you.

[Rick51]

Thanks for the reply's. Yes tools was installed. I will check out the link provided

Thanks again

[MikeNovember]

Hi,

I have written a tutorial; you can read it here: viewtopic.php?f=42&t=362350

Regards,

MN