Daryl Sharp said:
Before I get the usual answer, its not compatible, please humor me.
Building a test server, VMware ESX 5.1.0. Supermicro with H8DMU+ mainboard. Dual quad core Opteron processors, 16GB Ram.
Have it installed nicely onto a USB, everything is working fine except for the "Enable 3D support". XP Pro, Windows 7, Windows 2008 server, doesn't matter what the VM is, all have the Enable 3D grayed out. The PC accessing the VM has a high end graphics card. I've installed a 3D graphics card into the server (don't ask how), still the option won't enable.
In a normal VM, I'd just access the configuration fine and add the 3D, but no clue how to manually edit using ESX.
Open to ideas. I've scoured the vmware forums, but the answers are either blunt "not compatible" or obscure.
I've just encountered the same problems, I have 2 identical white box machines (dell OptiPlex 755's) and both will not support 'Enable 3D'. Ok they are old so no loss I thought. I just swapped one of them from a Q6600 to an E8400 and now it is supported (but now the servers are not identical!) It must be something to do with the CPU maybe SSSE4?
Sorry to dig up an old post but there is so little info on this subject. What is odd is I can copy the machine to the other server (iSCSI so just adding it to inventory) and it still works with 3D, I have aero and a good score in WIE but I cant 'enable 3D' on any new VM's on this server.
What I can say is 'Enable 3d' is nothing to do with the GPU on either the host or the client, it is pure emulation, I have it running on some more modern equipment, I only use the old PC's for testing. All the intel 1366 and 1155/1156 machines I have tried seem to support it, don't know about AMD.