While upgrading my lab from Windows 2012 R2 infrastructure VMs to Windows Server 2016 I noticed I was getting warnings from the installer stating the VMtools provided SVGA 3D driver was not compatible.
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. Yes agree adding the VMWare SVGA 3D driver at 8.15.1.48 driver on blacklist is appropriate. VMware Fusion 6 and 7 customers can upgrade to VMware Fusion 8 for only $49.99 and to VMware Fusion 8 Pro for $119.99 at the VMware online store. See Prepare the game Smite smoothly. I don't know if anyone has any experience with vmware fusion but I can. VMware SVGA 3D - Driver Download. Vendor: VMware, Inc. Product: VMware SVGA 3D. Hardware Class: DISPLAY. Search For More Drivers.: Go! Windows 10 32-Bit.
This VMware KB article for Windows 10 states changing the guest OS type is the appropriate action but changing the guest OS version to Windows Server 2016 didn’t help. Since I was in a pinch for time, I went ahead and did the update and ended up with a generic Windows graphic driver which is almost as bad as not having VMtools installed at all.Even though I’m still running vSphere 6.0 U2, thought I’d give an updated VMtools package a try. Thankfully VMware has already published the updated VMtools driver package for ESXi 6.5 here.
https://packages.vmware.com/tools/esx/6.5/windows/x64/index.html
Currently that version is 10.1.0-4449150 and included in file VMware-tools-10.1.0-4449150-x86_64.exe
Installed that package and everything works 🙂 This changed the reported version of VMtools in the Web Client from 10246 to 10272.
Probably not supported solution, but if you are in a pinch…
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.
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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 64–512 MB.
Fault Tolerance is not supported for virtual machines that have 3D graphics enabled.
- 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
- Right-click a virtual machine in the inventory and select Edit Settings.
- On the Virtual Hardware tab, expand Video Card.
- 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.
- Select the number of displays from the drop-down menu. You can set the number of displays and extend the screen across them.
- Enter the required video memory.
- (Optional) Select Enable 3D support. This check box is active only for guest operating systems on which VMware supports 3D.
- (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. - Click OK.