If you’re on Intel integrated graphics, there’s a good chance VMware will tell you that 3D acceleration can’t be enabled. Even if you flip the 3D acceleration switch, it still won’t work… I looked into it and it seems to be a blacklist thing — some drivers aren’t allowed to use 3D acceleration. Drop the blacklist and it works. It’s a forced override, sure, but I haven’t run into any problems.

VMware 12 has been out for a while now. I didn’t upgrade the desktop at home, and the laptop got upgraded but I barely use it. Today I felt like running a VM, so I pulled it out and upgraded — turned out there were two errors during install. The first was a theme error