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  • 1.  accelerate 3d Graphics

    Posted Mar 15, 2024 04:54 AM

    Hello, I'm new here and this is my first time posting a question. I have a new Dell G15 Ryzen 7 edition with an RTX 4060 graphics card. I installed VMware Workstation and created a Kali Linux virtual machine with GNOME. It worked perfectly at first, but after updating Kali Linux and everything else, restarting, and enabling 3D acceleration, my Kali Linux stopped working properly. Now, I mostly see a black screen, and even if it does work by chance, it lags terribly.



  • 2.  RE: accelerate 3d Graphics

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted Mar 18, 2024 04:00 PM

    Hi ,

    Your host system, appears to be one of those laptops that have a iGPU + GPU combo, they usually come with an out of date graphics driver. This might be a host graphics driver bug  and updating your GPU drivers might resolve this, 

    If that doesn't help, send a vmware.log of the vm running, and I can try to see if there's something I can spot.



  • 3.  RE: accelerate 3d Graphics

    Posted Mar 20, 2024 05:25 AM

    i already update the Nvidia to the latest version i tried everything 



  • 4.  RE: accelerate 3d Graphics

    Posted Mar 20, 2024 05:29 AM

    How can i take the log while running the virtual machine



  • 5.  RE: accelerate 3d Graphics

    Posted Mar 23, 2024 03:04 AM

     hi please reply



  • 6.  RE: accelerate 3d Graphics

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted Mar 25, 2024 01:03 PM

     Ticket has been raised internally, relevant team will look into the same.

    Unable to reproduce the issue on 13th Generation Raptor Lake with I7 processor machine with Windows 11 as Host, I was able to install Kali Linux(Kernel version-6.6.9) as Guest. Internally upgraded the Kali linux VM by using commands sudo apt update and sudo apt upgrade,retsrtaed the VMs several times including Suspend/Resume, unable to reproduce the issue.
    Kali Linux ISO downloaded from here-https://cdimage.kali.org/current/kali-linux-2024.1-installer-amd64.iso.

     Once you reproduce this issue, please share support bundle here in this thread using below-

    Help->Support->Collect Support Data

     

     



  • 7.  RE: accelerate 3d Graphics

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted Mar 26, 2024 04:51 AM

     Apart from the above details I asked for, please share vmx file of the affected VM.



  • 8.  RE: accelerate 3d Graphics

    Posted Mar 26, 2024 06:44 AM
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  • 9.  RE: accelerate 3d Graphics

    Posted Mar 26, 2024 06:46 AM
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     Here you go check this is ok ??

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    Kali Linux.zip   1 KB 1 version


  • 10.  RE: accelerate 3d Graphics

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted Mar 26, 2024 06:50 AM

     vmx file looks fine.

    Also as requested in previous comments, please share the support bundle using the steps I mentioned.

    I believe by mistake you Marked this issue as Solved, you may have to revert it as the issue is still persisting on your setup



  • 11.  RE: accelerate 3d Graphics

    Posted Mar 26, 2024 07:00 AM

    yes by my mistake i market issue is resolved sorry is there any way i can share the video you understand better

     



  • 12.  RE: accelerate 3d Graphics

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted Mar 26, 2024 07:01 AM

     You can share the video via direct download link or zip and attach the same here.



  • 13.  RE: accelerate 3d Graphics

    Posted Mar 26, 2024 07:03 AM

    yes let do a screen recording or something it would take like 15 min because i never tried screen Recording 



  • 14.  RE: accelerate 3d Graphics

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted Mar 26, 2024 07:18 AM

     Team will check the logs you provided and if required we will ask for video.



  • 15.  RE: accelerate 3d Graphics

    Posted Mar 28, 2024 09:51 AM

     Any update 



  • 16.  RE: accelerate 3d Graphics

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted Mar 28, 2024 09:53 AM

     Will let you know once there is any update



  • 17.  RE: accelerate 3d Graphics

    Posted Mar 29, 2024 03:20 AM

     OK Thank you so much for replying



  • 18.  RE: accelerate 3d Graphics

    Posted Mar 26, 2024 07:18 AM
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    While running the kali my mouse cursor lagg very bad like very bad and my Laptop start's lagging i have to wait like 1to2 min to get back to normal and i have to end task from the task manager



  • 19.  RE: accelerate 3d Graphics

    Posted Mar 26, 2024 07:20 AM

     look 



  • 20.  RE: accelerate 3d Graphics

    Posted Apr 03, 2024 04:07 AM

     Any Update it's been to long even i provided the video for information

     



  • 21.  RE: accelerate 3d Graphics

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted Apr 03, 2024 04:48 AM

     Awaiting response from Team, will inform if there is any update



  • 22.  RE: accelerate 3d Graphics

    Posted Apr 03, 2024 06:10 AM

    ok



  • 23.  RE: accelerate 3d Graphics

    Posted Mar 26, 2024 06:31 AM

    i am not getting it can you explain in detailed please



  • 24.  RE: accelerate 3d Graphics

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted Mar 26, 2024 06:44 AM

     

    To get Support bundle:

    1) Select the VM where you are seeing this issue in Workstation.

    2) Go to Menu,Help->Support->Collect Support Data.

    3) Collect full support logs, once they are ready, please share them here.

     

    To get the vmx file:

    1) Select the VM where you are seeing this issue in Workstation.

    2) Right click the VM in the library and click on Open VM Directory.

    3) By default, vmx file will be selected by default with type "VMware virtual machine configuration", share that file as well in this thread.



  • 25.  RE: accelerate 3d Graphics

    Posted Mar 26, 2024 06:58 AM
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    i sent the wrong one my Bad i am sending you new to this thread 

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    Kali.zip   1 KB 1 version


  • 26.  RE: accelerate 3d Graphics

    Posted Mar 26, 2024 06:58 AM
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  • 27.  RE: accelerate 3d Graphics

    Posted Apr 05, 2024 11:00 AM

    I can confirm this, 3D rendering stopped working with the latest mesa 24, I tried 3 different distributions (Gentoo, Fedora GNOME/KDE) with different Mesa versions, and is everywhere the same.

    Look eg. https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1167102-highlight-vmware+kde.html

    At first, I thought that it's a Gentoo packaging problem, but isn't. Yesterday I tried Fedora 39 KDE where is mesa 23.2.1 and it worked, then I tried Fedora 40 (beta) GNOME with mesa 24.0.1 and it completely froze VMware and I had to restart whole host system.

    I also tried with different kernel versions from 6.6.x to 6.8.3 and it looks like the latest kernel makes it maybe a little less buggy, but it's practically the same, black screens, if you are lucky then after 10-20 seconds the desktop will be partially rendered, but it falls apart in seconds, like black or gray boxes, partially rendered windows and at the end it freezes anyway.

    If you are lucky, your desktop renders and you open the terminal then eg. vblank_mode=0 glxgears and hitting enter do nothing for 1-2 seconds, there is some weird lag.

    I also looked into the Xorg.0.log, /var/log/messages, and dmesg, but it looks normal, there are no errors, that is also weird that whole desktop crashes and there are no errors in logs.

    Disabling 3D acceleration solves this problem, fortunately.



  • 28.  RE: accelerate 3d Graphics

    Posted Apr 06, 2024 03:24 AM

    Thank you so much finally someone knows about the problem but when i disable the  accelerate 3d Graphics gnome works perfect but there is no animation nothing feels pretty awkward to use gnome without any animations  see people also facing the the same problem



  • 29.  RE: accelerate 3d Graphics

    Posted Apr 07, 2024 12:25 PM

    That is the current reality, we will need to wait for the fix, if the fix will not be in the next release then we will wait a long time 🫤

    But there is also another problem, even if the 3D acceleration is disabled. I'm using vmware-kvm.exe and switching into/between the VM using the Pause/Break key. I've been using this functionality ~5 years and it always worked perfectly. But currently, sometimes happen that it only shows a black screen, it happens too often to be ignored.

    I started VM now and it happened to me after 5 switch to VM (Pause/Break using vmware-kvm.exe) but the rate of how often this happens is ~ 1:20 or 1:50, so sometimes can happen that it shows the black screen only.

    So there will be something wrong even if 3D rendering is disabled.



  • 30.  RE: accelerate 3d Graphics

    Posted Apr 08, 2024 04:23 AM

    Yes, I totally have been waiting for so long to get the solution, and I think that this problem has persisted for a very long time, around 5 to 6 months. Why hasn't the VMware team noticed this yet? 



  • 31.  RE: accelerate 3d Graphics

    Posted Apr 10, 2024 04:58 AM

     how long does it going to take i think it's been 20 days up 



  • 32.  RE: accelerate 3d Graphics

    Posted Apr 11, 2024 09:41 AM

    VMWare Workstation releases are around every 4-6 months, v17.5.1 was released on 27 FEB 2024 according to release notes v17.5.1 so the next release will be around July? That is plenty of time to fix it, but fixing problems like these is tricky, 3D rendering is no joke.

    Another thing is that this bug is for the latest X versions and VMWare always supports a few releases back. There is always a fight between vmwgfx and the latest Xorg. Xorg doesn't care about vmwgfx and they are pushing changes even if they break vmwgfx and then vmware fixes it later then. This is how I perceive it, it may be a little different but that is how I see it personally.



  • 33.  RE: accelerate 3d Graphics

    Posted Apr 13, 2024 01:04 PM

    yeah you are totally right but i have one question why no one noticed there so discussion on reddit or not even in youtube no one upload the video nothing even no one talked on the any form is it in weird 



  • 34.  RE: accelerate 3d Graphics

    Posted Apr 18, 2024 09:08 AM

     Are you going to reply at least reply something



  • 35.  RE: accelerate 3d Graphics

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted Apr 18, 2024 09:25 AM

     Team is trying to figure out a way to reproduce this issue In house, once we get to that point, you will be updated



  • 36.  RE: accelerate 3d Graphics

    Posted Apr 18, 2024 01:41 PM

    you can just watch the video that I've sent you early



  • 37.  RE: accelerate 3d Graphics

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted May 20, 2024 01:17 AM

    After updating below in the vmx file-

    mks.enableDX12Renderer = "FALSE"
    mks.enableGLRenderer = "TRUE"

    Please share how is it working and what issues you are still facing




  • 38.  RE: accelerate 3d Graphics

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted May 24, 2024 01:12 AM

    Please update to the latest Workstation Version 17.5.2 and update if the issue still exists.




  • 39.  RE: accelerate 3d Graphics

    Posted Apr 30, 2025 10:06 AM

    Hi i am the same guy started this thread i have to create a new account i still do have that id and password not able to login it tell me to unlock the account when i do it send the verification code but that email was temp mail so let's focus on our old problem still the problem is not solved yet  i tried this thing that you told me to do :-mks.enableDX12Renderer = "FALSE"
    mks.enableGLRenderer = "TRUE" but it help's to login in the kali-Linux but when i try to open anything in the kali like texteditor or the file manager or even opens the menu it lags or freeze for a second shows the loading cursor and then it opens but still too much lags 




  • 40.  RE: accelerate 3d Graphics

    Posted Dec 18, 2024 07:34 AM
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    I finally found this thread, old VMware forum was migrated to Boradcom without any redirects, it took months to index this by google bot.

    It's ~1 year 3D acceleration stopped working, I would like to see it fixed.

    I tried

    mks.enableDX12Renderer = "FALSE"
    mks.enableGLRenderer = "TRUE"

    But it didn't help, the same problem still.

    This problem started after some upgrade to Mesa 24.x, I know it because there were older mesa drivers for some time in my distro so I pinned them to have 3D accel working, but they were removed/deprecated and mesa 24 is the only option since then.

    It looks like the problem already starts during booting during passing framebuffers from UEFI vmwgfxdrmfb to vmwgfx drivers because it stops logging kernel messages to the console around logged vmwgfxdrmfb messages and then it directly shows sddm login page.

    I'm attaching a screenshot where it stops logging these kernel messages. If 3D accel is disabled it normally continues logging, for me the next messages are about OpenRC.




  • 41.  RE: accelerate 3d Graphics

    Posted Apr 30, 2025 05:45 AM

    did your problem solved i am the guy who started this thread




  • 42.  RE: accelerate 3d Graphics

    Posted Apr 30, 2025 06:21 AM

    Are you really that guy 😅 I was sending you a message to invite you here, they moved everything from vmware domain to broadcom, there was a total mess, that login system on Broadcom is ****, I have problems to login here, always stuck 10mins trying to log in.

    Yes, the problem still persist to me, its I don't know how long, its more than a year it started, still no fix to that, I still didn't tried to disable hardware accelerated gpu scheduling in Windows, as I don't like restarts, there is a chance it will work better, but maybe I tried it already even don't remember that, what I know is that its still doesn't work. 🤭




  • 43.  RE: accelerate 3d Graphics

    Posted Apr 30, 2025 12:41 PM

    yes bro i am that guy i created a new thread about the same issue again today because this one is old but why the Broadcom Employee Dhairya Tomar is not replying how can i contact him i sent him the request but no reply 




  • 44.  RE: accelerate 3d Graphics

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted May 13, 2025 01:01 AM

    Meet patel Request you to update to WS 17.6.3 and share if the issue still persists. If it's still there, please share support bundle of the affected VM.




  • 45.  RE: accelerate 3d Graphics

    Posted May 13, 2025 09:12 AM

    currently my version is this:-17.6.3 build-24583834 i think this is the latest version if not please let me know and how can i do the support bundle how to collect that?




  • 46.  RE: accelerate 3d Graphics

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted May 14, 2025 12:48 AM

    Meet patel Yes the version is correct.Once you reproduce this issue, please share support bundle here in this thread using below-

    Help->Support->Collect Support Data




  • 47.  RE: accelerate 3d Graphics

    Posted May 14, 2025 02:17 AM

    what do you mean reproduce  the issue  it's not some kind of error i can share the video of the things that happen after booting and i added this things to the .vmx file:-mks.enableDX12Renderer = "FALSE"
    mks.enableGLRenderer = "TRUE" but still the same issue persists


    Attachment(s)



  • 48.  RE: accelerate 3d Graphics

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted May 14, 2025 02:21 AM

    Meet patel To clarify, whenever you see the issue of Black Screen on the VM, collect the support bundle and share it.




  • 49.  RE: accelerate 3d Graphics

    Posted May 14, 2025 03:53 AM

    The black screen issue is already solved. However, as you can see in the video I've shared, there's another problem: the lag and screen freezing when opening apps, searching applications, and opening anything.




  • 50.  RE: accelerate 3d Graphics

    Posted May 15, 2025 09:18 AM

    Hi any update 




  • 51.  RE: accelerate 3d Graphics

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted May 16, 2025 12:26 AM

    Meet patel Please share support bundle of the VM which is having black screen for the team to look further.




  • 52.  RE: accelerate 3d Graphics

    Posted May 16, 2025 01:50 AM

    Sir The black screen issue is already solved. However, as you can see in the video I've shared, there's another problem: the lag and screen freezing when opening apps, searching applications, and opening anything.




  • 53.  RE: accelerate 3d Graphics

    Posted May 16, 2025 01:50 AM

    here is the file and the video as a prof 


    Attachment(s)



  • 54.  RE: accelerate 3d Graphics

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted May 16, 2025 02:19 AM

    Meet patel Unable to locate the attachment, can you please reupload the same.




  • 55.  RE: accelerate 3d Graphics

    Posted May 16, 2025 05:44 AM
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    here you go


    Attachment(s)



  • 56.  RE: accelerate 3d Graphics

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted May 16, 2025 06:45 AM

    Meet patel Still the same issue, can you try uploading it to a drive and share the direct download link.




  • 57.  RE: accelerate 3d Graphics

    Posted May 16, 2025 08:14 AM

    here you go again:-https://drive.google.com/file/d/1i6LdMvoK3DIRfmUkukiDIheCBr_8SIwX/view?usp=drive_link




  • 58.  RE: accelerate 3d Graphics

    Posted May 16, 2025 05:44 AM

    I couldnt login to broadcome my old account, I had to create a new one.

    🤭 you dont need to create a new thread, everything is already here, it will help nothing, they see there is a problem, they just don't fix it, they investing probably to other things, as you can see migration to broadcome was the primary thing for them and not 3d rendering, its normal.

    The problem is a little better after last mesa updates right? I doesn't crash so often, you are able to make more actions, but it freezes anyway, its unusable right? Do you have it the same? For me even on Win11 as guest there are similar problems, but they are so rare that I can normally work with Win11 guest, but frames are dropping rapidly to 3-5fps, its laggy sometime, it was not like so in eg. workstation 15-16, or in previous win10 or nvidia drivers, I don't know what is causing that.




  • 59.  RE: accelerate 3d Graphics

    Posted May 16, 2025 07:01 AM

    hi dude the problem is still there i've shared the video and the the support bundle you can see the video up there the black screen problem is solved but the minor lag and taking time to open the application and every thing it just sucks you can check the video




  • 60.  RE: accelerate 3d Graphics

    Posted May 17, 2025 02:51 AM

    That link isn't the public video, you didn't assign correct permission to it, I cant download it. You need to Copy link, then immediately click Manage access and change Restricted to Anyone can see or download, ok you can do assign perms if I request it, like I did.

    But there is no video inside 🤭 what are you talking about, there is only your Kali VM without vmdk file and lot of log files, but no video.

    I have already used to this, its long time it started, I have somehow adjusted to it, am using vmware 20 years and there was never problems like this, it worked always perfectly, now there is so many problems about desktop rendering, eg. also with vmware-kvm.exe, switching to VM renders partial or black screen in 5% of cases since this problem started, it all relates. Before, eg. vmware-kvm never failed to switch and render desktop, even once, it worked at 100% before. Even if its a little better now, its still not the same like before.

    Reupload that video, just right click it, Copy link, and set permission to Any can see it instead of Restricted.




  • 61.  RE: accelerate 3d Graphics

    Posted May 17, 2025 03:27 AM

    https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PuENgLret4oIl1OCEACl6F-HbQVszmLU/view?usp=sharing, https://drive.google.com/file/d/1i6LdMvoK3DIRfmUkukiDIheCBr_8SIwX/view?usp=sharing




  • 62.  RE: accelerate 3d Graphics

    Posted May 17, 2025 03:33 AM

    Its the same archive? whats the path to the video in that archive? /aa/bb/somevide.mp4, I think its the same archive with no video I even didn't open it 🤭




  • 63.  RE: accelerate 3d Graphics

    Posted May 17, 2025 09:09 AM

    https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PuENgLret4oIl1OCEACl6F-HbQVszmLU/view?usp=sharing, https://drive.google.com/file/d/1i6LdMvoK3DIRfmUkukiDIheCBr_8SIwX/view?usp=sharing now check




  • 64.  RE: accelerate 3d Graphics

    Posted May 19, 2025 06:42 AM

    did you get the file?




  • 65.  RE: accelerate 3d Graphics

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted May 19, 2025 06:43 AM

    Meet patel Yes, got the file, passed on the details to relevant team.




  • 66.  RE: accelerate 3d Graphics

    Posted May 20, 2025 08:41 AM

    Thanks! Any updates on this???




  • 67.  RE: accelerate 3d Graphics

    Posted May 20, 2025 11:57 AM

    Nope team is still looking on the support bundle how did you came to this thread 




  • 68.  RE: accelerate 3d Graphics

    Posted May 20, 2025 12:02 PM

    I came across the thread. I can't seem to post new topics but can reply. This forum seems to have some major disfunction!




  • 69.  RE: accelerate 3d Graphics

    Posted May 21, 2025 01:14 AM

    yes totally 




  • 70.  RE: accelerate 3d Graphics

    Posted May 21, 2025 01:14 AM

    Hi Bill!

    When you navigate to the threads list (for instance: https://community.broadcom.com/vmware-cloud-foundation/communities/community-home/digestviewer?communitykey=fb707ac3-9412-4fad-b7af-018f5da56d9f)  There should be a button in the top right corner above thread list called "START NEW THREAD" as presented below:

    Can't you see this button? 

    Let me know so I can further investigate.




  • 71.  RE: accelerate 3d Graphics

    Posted May 22, 2025 04:37 AM

    are you with the broadcom or the just user?




  • 72.  RE: accelerate 3d Graphics

    Posted May 22, 2025 04:36 AM

    Any update 




  • 73.  RE: accelerate 3d Graphics

    Posted May 24, 2025 04:36 AM

    Any Update? 




  • 74.  RE: accelerate 3d Graphics

    Posted May 27, 2025 03:11 AM

    Hi it's been a while since I last heard from you i keep messaging 




  • 75.  RE: accelerate 3d Graphics

    Posted Jun 09, 2025 06:18 AM

    Hi it's been a while around a month at least You kept ignoring my messages




  • 76.  RE: accelerate 3d Graphics

    Posted Jun 10, 2025 12:32 PM

    Hi it's been a while around a month at least You kept ignoring my messages

    Unfortunately, reporting bugs in this forum is a one-way street. If you had access to their technical support team, you'd be able to open a ticket and get its status. Since Broadcom no longer provides access to their technical support team for the desktop hypervisor products (Fusion/Workstation), users's can't open tickets and get a status. 

    Broadcom doesn't usually comment back to the community on the status of internally generated tickets. I do wish they'd do be a better job of commenting back to the user community when they open a ticket on behalf of a user.



    ------------------------------
    - Paul (technogeezer)
    vExpert 2025
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  • 77.  RE: accelerate 3d Graphics

    Posted Jun 12, 2025 01:26 PM

    According to my test, there is probably a problem with the Nvidia graphics driver or VMWare!


    If you've got two GPUs, you can try assigning the non-NVIDIA one to VMware.

    Just add these lines to your virtual machine's .vmx file:

    mks.dx11.vendorID = "0x1002"
    mks.dx12.vendorID = "0x1002"
    mks.enable3d = "TRUE"

    NVIDIA: 0x10DE

    AMD: 0x1002

    Intel: 0x8086




  • 78.  RE: accelerate 3d Graphics

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted Jun 17, 2025 02:27 PM

    Sorry I missed the support bundle earlier,  I looked at the logs and we are not running vulkan.  Can you remove any other config option and use this config option mks.vk.forceDevice=NVIDIA and check?




  • 79.  RE: accelerate 3d Graphics

    Posted Jun 19, 2025 02:31 AM

    where should i put this in the .vmx file? mks.vk.forceDevice=NVIDIA




  • 80.  RE: accelerate 3d Graphics

    Posted Jun 19, 2025 02:31 AM

    i tried your solution nope not working still lags while opening anything like when i try to open a file manager i got opening freeze and shows loading cursor and then it opens and after that for 2 sec you can not do anything like not able to close anything or touch 




  • 81.  RE: accelerate 3d Graphics

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted Jun 19, 2025 10:55 AM

    Can you Plese send vmware.log and mksSandbox.log? Forum uploads might not work so you can either upload somewhere and paste the link or send in a message to me.




  • 82.  RE: accelerate 3d Graphics

    Posted Jun 19, 2025 12:38 PM

    Can you help me get the logs and explain how to retrieve both?




  • 83.  RE: accelerate 3d Graphics

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted Jun 19, 2025 01:17 PM

    They should be in the vm directory. You should power down the VM and then look for vmware.log and mksSandbox.log in the VM folder.




  • 84.  RE: accelerate 3d Graphics

    Posted Jun 23, 2025 04:11 AM

    how should i provide you the files




  • 85.  RE: accelerate 3d Graphics

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted Jun 23, 2025 06:47 PM

    Can you attach them here in the thread?




  • 86.  RE: accelerate 3d Graphics

    Posted Jun 24, 2025 10:46 AM

    here you go 


    Attachment(s)

    log
    mksSandbox.log   54 KB 1 version
    log
    vmware-2.log   211 KB 1 version
    log
    vmware-1.log   217 KB 1 version
    log
    mksSandbox-0.log   54 KB 1 version
    log
    mksSandbox-1.log   79 KB 1 version
    log
    vmware-0.log   216 KB 1 version
    log
    vmware.log   228 KB 1 version
    log
    mksSandbox-2.log   79 KB 1 version


  • 87.  RE: accelerate 3d Graphics

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted Jun 24, 2025 05:50 PM

    I took a look at the log file and I can see now you are running on the NVIDIA gpu. I don't know what config option you tried before (and they might not have been effective because you were not running on the NVIDIA gpu), can you try the following config options.

    1. Keep mks.vk.forceDevice=NVIDIA and add mks.enableDX12Presentation=FALSE see if things improve.
    2. Remove mks.vk.forceDevice=NVIDIA and add mks.vk.forceDevice=AMD, check if things are better. Note this will use the integrated AMD graphics instead of NVIDIA

    I see a lot of errors unrelated to graphics in the vmware.log especially a bunch of SATA errors which might be what causing the problem not graphics but let's do the above experiements first.




  • 88.  RE: accelerate 3d Graphics

    Posted Jun 25, 2025 09:01 AM

    i tried the both solution that you told me to do nothing works i can now what should i do the config that I've shared with you at that time i was not using any custom config. i dind't add any extra things i that i removed everything and then i gave you that files 




  • 89.  RE: accelerate 3d Graphics

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted Jun 25, 2025 03:12 PM

    It's possible that the slowness you are experiencing is because of hyper-v is enabled. Can you please turn it off and try again? Search for "Turn windows feature on or off" in settings and then uncheck "hyper-V".  Unrelated to that, keep mks.vk.forceDevice=NVIDIA on as that's what you want to use for 3d rendering.




  • 90.  RE: accelerate 3d Graphics

    Posted Jun 27, 2025 06:06 PM

    Hi, I've tried everything you told me to do, but there's still no solution. How about we set up a TeamViewer session or something similar? That would be great because it would be easier for me to explain properly to you or the team. I'm not using it for 3D rendering I'm using Gnome in Kali Linux. Gnome without animations feels totally trash, which is why I'm using this feature. This problem never showed up until a year ago; I don't know what happened suddenly.




  • 91.  RE: accelerate 3d Graphics

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted Jun 27, 2025 06:42 PM

    Unfortunately, we can't live debug it. We can only look at the logs and see what might be going wrong. If you can send me the logs (vmware.log and mksSandbox.log) after you disabled Hyper-V then I can take a look again. It will also be helpful to know if an earlier version of workstation like 17.5.2 still works better as if that also is sluggish it might some windows update on your host which has caused this problem.




  • 92.  RE: accelerate 3d Graphics

    Posted Jun 28, 2025 06:13 AM

    here is the new log file that I've collected today 


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    vmware.log   207 KB 1 version
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    vmware-1.log   245 KB 1 version
    log
    mksSandbox.log   54 KB 1 version
    log
    mksSandbox-0.log   54 KB 1 version
    log
    vmware-2.log   211 KB 1 version
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    vmware-0.log   214 KB 1 version
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    mksSandbox-2.log   55 KB 1 version
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    mksSandbox-1.log   55 KB 1 version


  • 93.  RE: accelerate 3d Graphics

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted Jun 30, 2025 01:04 PM

    We are still detecting hyper-V is enabled on the host. From vmware.log

    "2025-06-28T04:27:13.960Z In(05) vmx IOPL_Init: Hyper-V detected by CPUID"

    You have to disable it first on windows.




  • 94.  RE: accelerate 3d Graphics

    Posted Jul 01, 2025 06:38 AM
      |   view attached

    i did turn off when you told me to do you can look and i don't have the Hyper-V option in my windows 11 i am using the latest version 




  • 95.  RE: accelerate 3d Graphics

    Posted Jul 06, 2025 09:43 AM

    "Windows Subsystem for Linux" also needs to be turned off. Because WSL depends on Hyper-V.




  • 96.  RE: accelerate 3d Graphics

    Posted Jul 05, 2025 01:16 PM

    are you going to reply or not? 




  • 97.  RE: accelerate 3d Graphics

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted Jul 05, 2025 08:12 PM

    VMX does not think it's turned off. I don't know why that would be, may be you needed reboot. Please refer to various threads here about turning off hyper-V. I am afraid I am not much of help in that area. 




  • 98.  RE: accelerate 3d Graphics

    Posted Jul 06, 2025 12:31 PM

    I want you to check again. This time, I turned off the Windows Subsystem for Linux; previously, I didn't. Someone in the comment section told me to do this. These are the new long files, but please reply this time. I am tired of this. Why can't you take this to the senior developer or some other people?


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    vmware-2.log   210 KB 1 version
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    vmware-0.log   209 KB 1 version
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    vmware-1.log   243 KB 1 version
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    vmware.log   214 KB 1 version
    log
    mksSandbox-2.log   79 KB 1 version
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    mksSandbox-0.log   79 KB 1 version
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    mksSandbox-1.log   79 KB 1 version
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    mksSandbox.log   54 KB 1 version


  • 99.  RE: accelerate 3d Graphics

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted Jul 07, 2025 12:41 PM

    Your logs still says hyper-V enabled...

    Try the bcdedit solution mentioned here and check in the vmware.log if it still has the line, if so you still have hyper-V enabled.

    vmx IOPL_Init: Hyper-V detected by CPUID

    In order to turn off Hyper-V mode, run the following command at the host in windows command-line with Administrator privileges:

    bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype off

    Reboot the system to activate your changes.

    If you want to go back to Hyper-V mode again, then you can enable it like this:

    bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype auto

    https://community.broadcom.com/vmware-cloud-foundation/communities/community-home/digestviewer/viewthread?MessageKey=61b9850c-30d7-4215-af2a-b6066d104ad3&CommunityKey=fb707ac3-9412-4fad-b7af-018f5da56d9f#bm61b9850c-30d7-4215-af2a-b6066d104ad3




  • 100.  RE: accelerate 3d Graphics

    Posted Jul 08, 2025 02:39 AM

    I did try your solution, but nope, nothing works as of now. It still shows 'vmx IOPL_Init: Hyper-V detected by CPUID.' Now, tell me, what should I do? Can you escalate this matter to higher-level personnel if they can do something about it? Also, regarding this thread: <response-element class="" ng-version="0.0.0-PLACEHOLDER"></response-element>https://community.broadcom.com/vmware-cloud-foundation/discussion/graphics-artifacts-suddenly-fill-the-vm-screen-after-long-use-of-a-kali-linux-vm-guest-with-3d-acceleration-enabled<response-element class="" ng-version="0.0.0-PLACEHOLDER"></response-element>, is this the same issue or not? Can you confirm? This is handled by you, right?




  • 101.  RE: accelerate 3d Graphics

    Posted Jul 08, 2025 02:39 AM

    i installed the Wayland in Gnome Session and ohh my God it works and feel very smooth like butter 




  • 102.  RE: accelerate 3d Graphics

    Posted Jul 08, 2025 02:39 AM

    But it's not that i am going to use the wayland I don't want to use the Wayland i going back to the Gnome X11




  • 103.  RE: accelerate 3d Graphics

    Posted Jul 11, 2025 02:27 AM

    At least reply you reply to other threads pretty fast, but not this one. Why? If you can't solve the problem, please tell me so I can remove GNOME. I'm tired of this now.




  • 104.  RE: accelerate 3d Graphics

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted Jul 11, 2025 12:38 PM

    I have pointed out to you that hyper-v is still enabled which is most common reason for a slowdown so unless you can turn it off completely (I also mentioned a thread) we can't rule that out as the reason for your slowness. X is recommended for VMware workstation so that's what you should use but without turning off hyper-V we can't make any further triage on this. We are looking at these forum issues as our spare time so our time devoted to debugging these are quite limited. Also, I have indicated how you can look at vmware.log and verify hyper-V is not enabled. There are a lot of internet resources on how to turn it off completely on windows.




  • 105.  RE: accelerate 3d Graphics

    Posted Jul 15, 2025 12:59 PM

    ok So i finally Disable it Big thanks to this guy RaSystemlord who commented on this thread these are the new long files and I've checked now there is no 

    vmx IOPL_Init: Hyper-V detected by CPUID in vmwarlog files so you do you work but keep me updated 


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    vmware-0.log   217 KB 1 version
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    mksSandbox-0.log   80 KB 1 version
    log
    vmware-1.log   199 KB 1 version
    log
    mksSandbox-2.log   79 KB 1 version
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    vmware.log   254 KB 1 version
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    mksSandbox.log   80 KB 1 version
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    vmware-2.log   120 KB 1 version
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    mksSandbox-1.log   79 KB 1 version


  • 106.  RE: accelerate 3d Graphics

    Posted Jul 21, 2025 09:03 AM

    Hey, are you going to reply? It's been a week, and I haven't received any updates. Please at least update me on the situation-is my problem going to be solved or not? I'm really tired of this now.




  • 107.  RE: accelerate 3d Graphics

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted 28 days ago

    I don't think we have determined what your problem is.? Are you able to turn off hyper-V finally and still see the slowness. Please attach vmware.log and mksSandbox.log to verify.




  • 108.  RE: accelerate 3d Graphics

    Posted 26 days ago

    Unfortunately I'm still facing the same issue Even after disabling Hyper-V the problem remained which led me to reinstall Kali Linux To avoid further delays with my work I've also undone all previous modifications I'm currently running Kali XFCE and the logs provided are the most recent showing the state with Hyper-V disabled And please try it on your own devices it will surely better.


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    mksSandbox-1.log   79 KB 1 version
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    mksSandbox-0.log   80 KB 1 version
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    vmware-2.log   120 KB 1 version
    log
    mksSandbox.log   80 KB 1 version
    log
    vmware.log   254 KB 1 version
    log
    mksSandbox-2.log   79 KB 1 version
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    vmware-0.log   217 KB 1 version
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    vmware-1.log   199 KB 1 version


  • 109.  RE: accelerate 3d Graphics

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted 25 days ago

    These logs do indicate hyoer-V is turned off but you seem to be missing one of the earlier config option I mentioned, mks.vk.forceDevice=NVIDIA. Can you check if that makes in any difference (please attach mksSandbox.log and vmware.log to verify whether that config option took effect). As you are on the testing couple of other things to test (Keep the forceDevice config to NVIDIA)

    1. Does the slowness happen if you turn off 3D in the VM?
    2. I know you have done this before but not with forceDevice=NVIDIA so add mks.enableDX12Presentation=FALSE and check.



  • 110.  RE: accelerate 3d Graphics

    Posted 24 days ago

    I tried adding mks.vk.forceDevice=NVIDIA and mks.enableDX12Presentation=FALSE, but the problem still occurs, though I saw very slight improvements perhaps 1% I'm not sure but I felt that way Why can't you guys try on your own devices? The slowness, lags, screen freezes, and stuck loading cursor happen when I turn on 3D. If I turn it off, the problem is solved, but I don't want to do that because if I'm using Kali Linux (GNOME), the animations and feel go away if I turn off 3D. So i enable the Hype-V because i tired of this thing today i reinstall the Gnome but these new logs are with the enabled Hyper-V,Hyper-V is not the issue now i Guess And is there any other way we can communicate because this things takes too much time Like weeks to get reply and everything and also i saw tons of post regarding this issue in this forum so you have to do something serious about this 

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    mksSandbox.log   54 KB 1 version
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    vmware.log   252 KB 1 version


  • 111.  RE: accelerate 3d Graphics

    Posted 23 days ago

    I'm continuing my test reports here - initially they were in a thread with "Kali" in the title.

    I have a new test install of Kali 2025 in VMware 17.5.2. I now turned 3D on, not sure what 3D does in KDE Plasma environment (as mentioned in the other thread, transparency of windows works without hardware 3D support). That is what I selected when installing because I don't like Gnome progress at all.

    I have now run Kali for 2 days with 3D ON (also without it), kept Kali alive with nping with 30 second interval, and there is nothing wrong with the desktop graphics.

    I have both Intel and RTX (5080 Mobile) on the Win 11 Pro Host - I have done nothing for the setup. Perhaps Asus ROG Armory Crate does something right for controlling GPUs. Although, I checked that GPU selection is controlled by Windows which is the default way. It's a brand new system and thus all kinds of driver issues could be there.

    So, in your case, either Gnome is bad, VMware version is bad or even hardware+drivers on the Host are bad. As a guess, I think that Gnome+VMware version are bad. Both are easy to change for Kali 2025.




  • 112.  RE: accelerate 3d Graphics

    Posted 22 days ago

    My VM, Kali and GNOME are all at their latest versions, and my Windows, CPU, and GPU drivers are fully updated. This issue is a year old. Since you're running KDE I suggest trying GNOME (you'll see it as an option during Kali installation) How could GNOME or its version be the problem it's clearly a VM problem some kind of you check my CONFIG of my device starting on the thread.

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  • 113.  RE: accelerate 3d Graphics

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted 23 days ago

    The attached latest vmware.log has hyper-v enabled? 

    Our QE and few posters have run kali linux with gnome for extended periods of time and they have not seen any slowness issue so far so what you are seeing is specific to your system and if you are saying it happens only with 3d enabled then it's related to graphics/input.

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  • 114.  RE: accelerate 3d Graphics

    Posted 22 days ago

    Is the Hyper-V is enabled in that latest Logs , And the problem occur only when i turn on the 3D but if turned off that it is going to work perfect but the Gnome Animations and the smoothness will be gone and you told that it's related to the Graphics/input and my Devices problem are you sure because lot's of people are facing this same issue i saw tons of thread in this communities can you share the vides if possible 

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  • 115.  RE: accelerate 3d Graphics

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted 22 days ago

    Umm.. not sure what you meant but the latest logs you attached have hyper-V enabled so you need to make sure it's turned off. The logs you sent before did have hyper-V disabled but we were not running on Vulkan on the host side.

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  • 116.  RE: accelerate 3d Graphics

    Posted 21 days ago

    Yes the latest logs that i provided you indeed enable the Hyper-v in it , I tried to turn it off again, but I couldn't. I've tried everything, and honestly, I'm really tired of dealing with this.

    Yesterday, I upgraded my VM - I didn't even realize a new version had been released. After upgrading, I tested it with three different configurations. The first one was given to me by an old member (I don't remember exactly what it was), then I tried the second and third. The third config worked about 1%, barely.

    I also tried running it without any config, and I noticed some improvements. Previously, my file manager wouldn't open without lagging or freezing the screen, but now that issue seems to be gone. Also, the browser and search bar open faster than before.

    I'd say around 50% of the problem seems to be solved  I'm not completely sure, but something definitely improved. this is my Razer Blade, @Exploit6969, in the Telegram so we can talk further so i can show what is actually happing please contant me on the telegram because in this thread it takes ton's of time to communicate to sent you one message it takes so much time 

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  • 117.  RE: accelerate 3d Graphics

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted 25 days ago

    Also, is this specific to Kali linux or happens with VMs running other distros or even windows?




  • 118.  RE: accelerate 3d Graphics

    Posted 24 days ago

    I tried only Kali so idk about the windows distro or any other OS.

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  • 119.  RE: accelerate 3d Graphics

    Posted 4 days ago

    are you going to reply or not it's been a many Days i think you should reply 

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  • 120.  RE: accelerate 3d Graphics

    Posted Jul 13, 2025 05:21 AM

    As for disabling VBS/Hyper-V thingies, it has been discussed here many times. Try these instruction or if they don't work, follow those threads for more information.

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    In this guide, I will explain how to disable Hyper-V in Windows and use Intel VT-x/EPT or AMD-V/RVI in any virtualization program, such as VirtualBox or VMware (in my case). The final step (6) is the key to disabling it in version 24H2, which has a bug that prevents it from being disabled.


    Step 1: Stop Any Currently Running Hyper-V Services

    1. Click on the Start menu.
    2. Type services (without quotes) and press [ENTER].
    3. In the Services window, browse through the list and look for any services that include "Hyper-V" (e.g., "HV Host Service").
    4. If any of these services are running, right-click on them and select Stop.
    5. Close the Services window.

    Step 2: Ensure Hyper-V and Related Features Are Not Installed

    1. Click on the Start menu.
    2. Type Features (without quotes) and select "Turn Windows Features on or off".
    3. In the Windows Features window, ensure the following options are unchecked:
      • Hyper-V (including all sub-items).
      • Windows Hypervisor Platform.
      • Linux subsystem for windows
    4. Click OK and wait for the changes to apply.
    5. Restart your computer if prompted.

    Step 3: Disable "hypervisorlaunchtype"

    1. Click on the Start menu.
    2. Type powershell (without quotes), right-click on Windows PowerShell, and select Run as administrator.
    3. In the PowerShell window, type the following command and press [ENTER]:
    4. bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype off
    5. Close the PowerShell window.

    Step 4: Disable Device Guard (If Applicable)

    Note:

    • This step may not apply to all versions of Windows.
    • The Group Policy Editor (gpedit.msc) is not available in Windows 11 Home.
    1. Click on the Start menu.
    2. Type gpedit.msc (without quotes) and press [ENTER].
    3. In the Group Policy Editor, navigate to:
    4. Local Computer Policy > Computer Configuration > Administrative Templates > System > Device Guard
    5. Double-click on "Turn on Virtualization Based Security".
    6. Select Disabled and click OK.

    Step 5: Disable "Memory Integrity" in Core Isolation

    1. Click on the Start menu.
    2. Type core isolation (without quotes) and press [ENTER].
    3. In the Core Isolation window, ensure that "Memory Integrity" is turned Off.
    4. Close the window.

    Step 6: Mandatory step for Windows 11 24H2

    Windows 11 24H2 has a known issue where Hyper-V might still interfere even after following the above steps. To resolve this, you'll need to use the Microsoft Device Guard and Credential Guard Hardware Readiness Tool:

    1. Download the Device Guard and Credential Guard hardware readiness tool from Microsoft.
    2. Extract the downloaded ZIP file.
    3. Use the tool to disable Device Guard and Credential Guard:
      • Open PowerShell window as an administrator.
      • Navigate to the folder where you extracted the tool.
      • Firs run this command to get Execution Policy:
      • Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted -Scope Process
      • Now run the script with the -disable parameter to disable Device and Credential Guard
      • DG_Readiness_Tool_v3.6.ps1 -Disable
    4. Reboot your computer.
    5. During the boot process, Windows will ask you to confirm the changes. Follow the on-screen instructions to proceed (Just press F3).

    Note: Disabling Device Guard and Credential Guard will temporarily disable your Windows Hello PIN. However, you can re-enable it later without any issues.


    Step 7: Confirm Hyper-V is Fully Disabled

    1. After rebooting, open a PowerShell window as an administrator.
    2. Run the following command to ensure Hyper-V is fully disabled:
    3. bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype off
    4. Reboot your computer again.

    Additional Notes

    This method worked for me on Windows 11 24H2 for VMware Workstation and Virtualbox After completing these steps. I hope this actually helps someone, because I almost lost my mind trying to fix this

    I am not responsible if someone breaks their system or creates a security breach. I'm just trying to help, something Microsoft doesn't do.

    If you need assistance, consider asking ChatGPT, Deepseek, or similar tools, as I'm not an IT professional affiliated with Microsoft.

    I can't believe that after all this time, this error and many others are still present in Windows 11 24H2, and they haven't released an update to fix it yet. It's disappointing how lazy the developers at Microsoft are becoming. They haven't made any major changes to the modern architecture of Windows since Windows 7, and yet there are still such nonsensical bugs like this one.


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  • 121.  RE: accelerate 3d Graphics

    Posted Jul 15, 2025 12:59 PM

    Bro thank you so much i tried everything but nothing works you came as a miracle seriously i tried everything thank you again




  • 122.  RE: accelerate 3d Graphics

    Posted Jul 15, 2025 03:10 PM

    Thank you Meet Patel :) 

    I'm really glad I could help. However, these were not my notes - somebody else did the great job putting all together.

    Take Care