Danil Rednine ddan9

VMware Player: "No 3d support is available from the host"

NOTE: I no longer use VMware products, and on good authority this trick no longer works (see comments below).

Facts: VMware Player on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS with the standard Gnome desktop running an AMD WX-2100 graphics card. Both glxinfo and glxgears show 3d acceleration is enabled and working on the host. In addition to VMware Player, the host is also running the qemu-kvm/libvirtd stack from Ubuntu's official repositories. My use case for 3d accelerated graphics in a Windows guest is to occasionally play a Windows-only game.

Issue: Player barks this warning during installation of... anything.

Solution: This

Install Arch Linux in a Virtual Machine

References

I used the following references to learn how to install Arch Linux in a virtual machine:

VMware VMX Notes, Performance Tweaks, Interactivity Improvements

experimented on VMware Workstation 15.5.2 build-15785246, other verisons may not work, no guaranteed.

global config for all VMs

C:\ProgramData\VMware\VMware Workstation\config.ini

	OK I found the solution ! The problem came from the host, in my case :

	Ubuntu 18.04 + Integrated Intel Graphics i915 + NVidia GTX 1050 (it's a laptop)

	Vulkan happens to run by default on the 1st GPU it lists. For me, it was the Intel graphics integrated GPU, which of course has no Vulkan support...

	You can test Vulkan support on your system by using the executable "vkcube", installed with a package named "vulkan-tools". I used a well-known PPA to install the v460 nvidia proprietary drivers, from here : https://launchpad.net/~graphics-drivers/+archive/ubuntu/ppa . This utility simply displays a cube. If your system is not configured properly, the little window will be all black, with no cube.

	To force Vulkan to run on the desired GPU, I used this command line for my NVidia card :