VMware Workstation running on Linux or Windows and VMware Fusion running on MacOS are all supported. This driver gives a Linux virtual machine access to the host’s GPU for hardware-accelerated 3D. While the video isn’t exactly professionally-made, it seems to have certainly done its job of spreading the word that 3D graphics acceleration is on the way pretty soon from VMWare.”įull article with more info and link to the video here. This page describes how to build, install and use the VMware guest GL driver (aka the SVGA or SVGA3D driver) for Linux using the latest source code. While I wish we had done this video ourselves, given how well the video has been received so far, I can only say “Thank You.”ģD Graphics in VMware Fusion for Mac OS X:Ĭheng reports, “Indeed. The author of this video (a woman if the female voice-over is any indication?) is obviously a dedicated VMware and Mac zealot. license to install, use and run one (1) copy of the Apple Software on a single Apple-Branded computer at any one.

This video kind of caught us by surprise. Taking into account that OS X is now officially supported on commercial virtualization solutions such as VMWare Fusion and Parallels, and after a careful reading of Apples OS X EULA (which states that '. Somebody managed to get a hand on an internal beta build of VMware Fusion whose UI offers a way to accelerate 3D graphics in virtual machines, and even made a video of some serious 3D gaming action in Fusion. If the observations made by Regis ‘HPReg’ Duchesne on the VMWare blog are to be considered, it appears as if the video is in fact very real:” Needless to say, the video and its implications generated a bit of buzz among virtualization and, more importantly, gaming fans yesterday,” Jacqui Cheng reports for Ars Technica. Watch the rather amateurish video for yourself, and ponder it in awe. “A mysterious, anonymous video was leaked yesterday showing Windows 3D graphics acceleration running on VMWare for OS X.

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