The VMware SVGA II device is the virtual graphics card implemented by all VMware virtualization products. If you're running a virtual machine using VMware Workstation, Fusion, Player, or ESX, this is the graphics card that your virtual machine sees.

This graphics card doesn't look quite like any physical graphics card that exists. In many ways it resembles a physical device, but in other ways its programming model has been idealized or otherwise modified to make it easier to emulate.

VMware's desktop virtualization products (Fusion, Workstation, Player) can use your machine's physical graphics hardware to implement acceleration for the VMware SVGA device. Currently it supports a small amount of 2D acceleration, cursor acceleration, video overlay support, and 3D graphics with Shader Model 2.0. All of this acceleration is provided via a virtualized graphics interface, so the same drivers in the VM work regardless of what physical graphics card, if any, is physically available.

This project is a package of developer-oriented documentation for the details of this virtualized graphics interface. It consists of some basic documentation, as well as a package of example programs which demonstrate how to draw 2D and 3D graphics inside a virtual machine. These examples run on the (virtual) bare metal, without any OS or any other graphics driver loaded.

This package is provided for educational purposes, and for people who are developing 3D drivers. It may be especially interesting to hobbyist OS authors, or developers who want to experiment with low-level 3D graphics without the complexity of a physical GPU's programming interface.

This code won't help you if you're writing normal user-level apps that you'd like to run inside a virtual machine. It's for driver authors, and it assumes a reasonable amount of prior knowledge about graphics hardware.

Requirements

VMware Fusion: Powerfully Simple Virtual Machines for Mac. VMware Fusion Pro and VMware Fusion Player Desktop Hypervisors give Mac users the power to run Windows on Mac along with hundreds of other operating systems, containers or Kubernetes clusters, side by side with Mac applications, without rebooting. VMware SVGA II display adapter driver for OSx86 Leopard running as a VMware guest. Version 1.1.0 Framebuffer features. Set one of 13 pre-canned display modes from System Preferences/Displays pane. Hardware mouse cursor support. Support for VMware's fit-guest feature via a modified vmware-tools-guestd from Darwin.ISO Tools 2.0.5. VMware's 3D is incomplete, with only DirectX 8.1 and no OpenGL. Not all games can work on it. Boot Camp is always recommended for gaming because of the direct hardware access. Boot Camp itself doesn't support 64-bit yet, but only in the sense that it doesn't supply the necessary 64-bit drivers. VMware SVGA Device Developer Kit - The 'VMware SVGA II' device is the virtual graphics card implemented by all VMware virtualization products. It is a virtual PCI device, which implements a basic 2D framebuffer, as well as 3D acceleration, video overlay acceleration, and hardware cursor support. When you create or edit a virtual machine, you can configure 3D graphics to take advantage of Windows AERO, CAD, Google Earth, and other 3D design, modeling, and multimedia applications. Before you enable 3D graphics, become familiar with the available options and requirements.

Binaries are included if you just want to try out the examples. To compile the code yourself, you'll need a few basic open source tools:

• A recent version of GCC and binutils.
  I use GCC 4.2 (Older versions may require tweaking the Makefile.rules file slightly.)
• GNU Make
• Python

To run the examples, you'll need a recent version of VMware Workstation, Fusion, or the free VMware Player. Some of the examples will work on older versions, but Workstation 6.5.x or Fusion 2.0.x is strongly recommended.

Browse

• GPU Virtualization on VMware's Hosted I/O Architecture (PDF)

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Development takes place in a Git repository hosted by Sourceforge:

When you enable 3D graphics, you can select a hardware or software graphics renderer and optimize the graphics memory allocated to the virtual machine. You can increase the number of displays in multi-monitor configurations and change the video card settings to meet your graphics requirements.

The default setting for total video RAM is adequate for minimal desktop resolution. For more complex situations, you can change the default memory. Typically, 3D applications require a video memory of 64–512MB.

Fault Tolerance is not supported for virtual machines that have 3D graphics enabled.

Vmware Svga 3d Driver Opengl

• Verify that the virtual machine is powered off.
• Verify that the virtual machine compatibility is ESXi 5.0 and later.
• To enable 3D graphics in virtual machines with Windows 8 guest operating systems, the virtual machine compatibility must be ESXi 5.1 or later.
• To use a Hardware 3D renderer, ensure that graphics hardware is available. See Configuring 3D Graphics.
• If you update the virtual machine compatibility from ESXi 5.1 and later to ESXi 5.5 and later, reinstall VMware Tools to get the latest SVGA virtual graphics driver and Windows Display Driver Model driver.
• Verify that you have the Virtual machine.Configuration.Modify device settings privilege on the virtual machine.

Procedure

1. Right-click a virtual machine in the inventory and select Edit Settings.
2. On the Virtual Hardware tab, expand Video Card.
3. Select custom or automatic settings for your displays from the drop-down menu. Option

   Description
   Auto-detect settings	Applies common video settings to the guest operating system.
   Specify custom settings	Lets you select the number of displays and the total video memory.

4. Select the number of displays from the drop-down menu.
   You can set the number of displays and extend the screen across them.
5. Enter the required video memory.
6. (Optional) Click Video Memory Calculator to calculate the required video memory based on the maximum number of displays and resolution that the guest operating system must support, and click OK.
7. (Optional) Click Enable 3D support.
   This check box is active only for guest operating systems on which VMware supports 3D.
8. (Optional) Select a 3D Renderer. Option

   Description
   Automatic	Selects the appropriate option (software or hardware) for this virtual machine.
   Software	Uses normal CPU processing for 3D calculations.
   Hardware	Requires graphics hardware (GPU) for faster 3D calculations. Note: The virtual machine will not power on if graphics hardware is not available.

9. Click OK.

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