AMD GPU Pro With VMware Workstation Player

[TreeOfLife]

Hi, I am having a weird issue with AMD GPU Pro drivers, using 3D acceleration. When I start the virtual machine, it just says it has disabled 3D acceleration, and it can't use it. If I put the following in my preference, then the virtual machine just crashes while loading into windows.

mks.gl.allowBlacklistedDrivers = "TRUE"

Could you please let me know if there is a possible fix? I wrote my specs below to help resolve the issue.

AMD Ryzen 1800x

ROG Crosshair VI Hero (Latest Bios and SVM Enabled)

AMD R9 Fury X

Ubuntu 16.04 x64

AMD GPU Pro Driver 17.3 (AMDGPU-PRO Driver for Linux Release Notes )

Linux Kernel 4.8.0-58-generic

Thanks!

[bluefirestorm]

Assuming that you are using Workstation Player 12.x/12.5.x, have a look at this pages of the documentation

https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Workstation-Player/12.0/workstation-player-12-linux-user-guide.pdf#page=78&zoom=auto,-210,252

It tells you to verify using glxinfo and glxgears which implies a dependency on the Mesa GL drivers.

[TreeOfLife]

Sorry I forgot to mention I already checked glxinfo and glxgears

Here is the output for glxinfo http://textuploader.com/domwz

and glxgears shows a window of with 3 gears rotating.

[bluefirestorm]

Have you tried using the open source AMDGPU drivers instead of the AMD GPU Pro?

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AMDGPU-Driver

[TreeOfLife]

That worked but I had to allow black listed drivers.