How to enable 3D acceleration under VMware workstation 8?

Question

I saw there are similar questions, but I don't think they answer exactly my questions.

Did anyone managed to get 3D acceleration work under VMWare workstation 8? I have VMware 8.01 installed on Ubuntu 11.10. The guest I am trying is also Ubuntu 11.10.

I manually installed vmware-tools and it went well, except the X-config part was skipped as it said the distribution driver is used. The guest runs well but it seems fall back to 2D mode.

Does any one has any idea how to enable 3D acceleration under VMWare workstaion with Linux guest?

Solution 1

VMWare workstation 8 currently does not support 3D acceleration.

Solution 2

According to VMware Workstation 8 documentation (Configuring Virtual Machine Hardware Settings » Configuring Display Settings) 3D acceleration is only available for Windows XP, Windows Vista, and Windows 7 guests.

Comments

[Evgeniy]

I knew there was the checkbox. But it did not work. I would like to know how you get it worked. For example how do you get gnome 3 shell in fedora 16 worked.