Autodesk Fusion 360

Fusion 360 in VMware-player virtual machine

• Be sure to have a NVIDIA graphics card with opengl support
• Install VMware-player
• Be sure to give the installed virtual machine (Windows) enough RAM from the graphics card (recommended 1GB)
• start vmware-player with

export DRI_PRIME=1; /usr/bin/vmplayer /path/to/virtualmachine_name.vmx

Or if you installed VIX (vmrun):

export DRI_PRIME=1; vmrun -T player start  /path/to/virtualmachine_name.vmx

Note: DRI_PRIME only works with the free graphics driver NOUVEAU and INTEL, not with the proprietary ones !!! The proprietary driver is not able to run a program on the nvidia-card while the intel graphic driver is used (former known as "optimusrun"). If you like to use the proprietary Nvidia drivers, then you have to use prime-select (Optimus graphic card) and switch completely to the Nvidia card.

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  dxdiag in VirtualBox (shows 256MB RAM and DirectX 9)

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  dxdiag in VMware-player started with DRI_RIME=1 on dedicated NVIDIAD card (shows 1GB RAM and DirectX 10)

I tested this with a Intel XEON system (integrated intel graphic). I added a simple NVIDIA GT 610 (2GB RAM, passive cooled, costs around 40 €).

GPU path through is NOT possible with this setup. Only VMware-ESXI or -Workstation - which are not free - have this feature. Another Option would be KVM an use GPU paththrough (not tested). But since I am using Virtualbox for other virtualmachines this is a problem: KVM/quemu and virtualbox can not run side by side. But VMware and VirtualBox can!