How can I use physical computer's GPU on VMware Workstation?

Question

I am ching.

I want to use GPU to accelerate video transcoding time by using ffmpeg on the virtual machine, VMware Workstation.

I use command lspci | grep VGA lspci | grep VGA , the output is

00:0f.0 VGA compatible controller: VMware SVGA II Adapter

It seems that I only can use its own Graphic Card on VMware, right?

How can I use my physical computer's GPU, NVIDIA Quadro K2000?

Or another solution can solve the problem mentioned on the tilte?

Answer 1

I assume you are using some flavor of linux as your host? Open VM preferences and navigate to Display - there check "Accelerate 3D graphics" and select maximum amount of Graphics memory. Other than that you cant select directly to passthrough your GPU to a VM in a workstation.