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    Drivers for 460m in VMWare?

    Discussion in 'Alienware' started by imranh101, Jun 25, 2012.

  1. imranh101

    imranh101 Notebook Guru

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    Just installed OSX 10.6.4 in a VM and graphics are a bit slow. Installed the VMWare tools but was wondering if anyone knew of drivers I can install for the 460m in VMWare Workstation V8.
    Thanks in advance!
     
    imranh101, Jun 25, 2012
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  2. LinkRS

    LinkRS Notebook Consultant

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    Hello Imranh101,

    Inside your VM, OS X is not running a GeForce 460m. If you look in System Profiler ( it is on the OS X side), and check your graphics, it should list some VMWare Adaptor instead of your 460m (which is how Virtualization works). You would need drivers form VMware to do what you are asking. Check and make sure you have the latst version of Workstation installed, to make sure you have the most recent version of VMWare Tools. I didn't know that VMWare Workstation supported virtualizing OS X? I thought that was only allowed using Parallels Desktop for Mac, when you are running on a Mac, and using the Server version of the OS?? Good luck!

    Rich S.
     
    LinkRS, Jun 25, 2012
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  3. TheAppleFreak

    TheAppleFreak Notebook Enthusiast

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    There is no graphics accelerated (QE/CI) enabled graphics adapter available for virtual machines with an OS X guest. There is a SVGAII driver on InsanelyMac, but it does not enable QE/CI. Sorry, if you're looking for GPU acceleration you'll need to stop looking for now.
     
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