Run ANY Windows App on Linux - VMware with 3D Acceleration

how to setup a Windows 11 guest virtual machine on our Linux host. We're going to be doing this in VMware as it provides better graphics performance for gamming and creative application. This also won't require GPU passthrough to get some decent performance.

Commands and Sources:

00:00 - What we're doing?
01:34 - Getting stuff.
03:12 - VM setup.
06:14 - Windows install. (+regedit)
09:10 - Windows setup and drivers.
11:55 - Fixing network.
12:40 - Fixing 3D support.

My Workstation (PAID LINKS)

[marufbepary]

I wish VMWare was open source, it's my favourite virtualization software.

[SoulRollerFIN]

This is great if you're in a situation where you have to use the GPU on both host and guest simultaneusly. For gaming however QEMU/KVM with GPU passthrough is the best option. Great guide man.

[Ahmed-tohi]

I'm gonna be honest here, you are the best linux channel on yt by far!
All of the apps and distros you show are amazing!

[paherbst]

It would have been interesting to see you do a 3D frame rate test

[psiborg]

I just tried to do this yesterday and could not get past the TPM check, you rule, thank you!

[josephnorris]

Thanks for the help, I got it up and running and I appreciate it. I was never able to succeed at getting single GPU passthrough working so I gave up on that.

[YorranKlees]

Hi, many thanks for this tutorial. I want to give an update here, as versions upgraded.
I'm running Linux Mint 21.1 and VMware Player 17. Right off the box, network and sound do work. I added that line for the GC preferences setup and dxdiag shows just what you presented. It clearly is not Win native, but it's working.
Your video was of great help for configuring all that. I can't wait to test some demanding softwares and see how it goes.

[thebluegremlin]

I used this to make Quest 2 VR work in Linux. I just had to change the network to bridge and it sees server. Thank you so much! I've been waiting for this for about a year!!!

[LinkDragon]

Currently been dual booting Linux and Windows 10 on my Ryzen 5 3600X build with 32 GB of RAM and my GTX 1660 Ti. Using a virtual Windows machine in Linux for gaming has been a long term goal so I'm definitely gonna give this a shot. Thanks for the video man!

[janedoe]

Thank you Brandon! Excellent breakdown of the vmware installation !

[hershmysson]

Holy heck I had no clue you could run a terminal on the installation cd the more you know aye? Really nice tutorial TechHut you are awesome.

[Ukepa]

wow, a lot of information but well demonstrated and you wind up with a beefy windows machine. Thank you very much!

[Standoffmuffin]

Thank you just starting out today very excited!

[oswatch]

With Qemu + Virtual Machine Manager installing Windows 10, I did not have to do the bypass, but I will give it a shot with Windows 11 as well. Many thanks for this tutorial.

[mitcoes]

For gaming, but it is tricky KVM-QEMU one GPU pass through is the way to go.
There are not good step by step how to guides or scripts to prepare a MS WOS 11 VM.

[blasme]

I've been looking forward to something like this, I hope it works for me. I've been getting that message for a decade, but didn't really matter until I started gaming on PC. VM's were my solution to dual booting headaches.

[allesbelegt]

Out of curiosity: Have you tried to make a perfomance test between VMware with OpenGL versus Vulkan? With the release of 16.2, the Pro Version Supports Vulkan for Rendering.
One thing that i would make different in VM creation in Workstation Player: Deleting the Disk after creating the VM and recreate it. Because then you have the option, to allocate the full disk size.

And for the video: Thumbs up.

[BrianJones-wkcx]

Nice! Thank you! While I understand it won’t be native performance, I’m curious how close to native it gets.

[danieleintra]

Using after effects in VM the performance drop drastically? is there any method to run AE on linux?

[matcraftou]

*_Thanks a lot! Thias was very useful to me!_*