Nvidia drivers under 8.10 under VMware Fusion

[Willy Hamra]

2009/3/29 Glen Barber <glen.j.barber at gmail.com>:
> On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 10:25 PM, Anthony E. Caudel
> <tony.caudel at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>> Is anyone out there using Kubuntu 8.10 under VMware?  I am on a MAC
>> Macbook pro which has an NVIDIA card and I have been presuming I could
>> install the NVIDIA drivers.  No luck.
>>
>
> That is not how hardware virtualization works.  The virtual machines
> do not actually "use" the hardware directly.  It is just a layer of
> abstraction between the host / guest OSes.
>
>> Unfortunately lspci says the video card is a simulated card of
>> VMware's so maybe this is not to be.
>>
>> Is there any other way to get OpenGL?
>>
>
> Because of VMWare's "graphics card" limitations (16MB RAM, last I
> recall), if you *do* get OpenGL to work, it will most probably perform
> poorly.
>
>

the last i remember, VMware were planning to implement video
acceleration in VMs, but it was just experimental, and i don't think
it's implemented yet, but it's been more than a year since i used
VMware, so not sure about the current state.

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Willy K. Hamra
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Co. Manager of Zeina Computers and Billy Net.