Provavelmente bubmp, isso funcionou para mim no debian 8: Como consertar a aceleração 3D para o Vmware Workstation 9?
Sobre a parte da mesa: instalei:
apt-get install mesa-utils
Em seguida, verifiquei o suporte do OpenGL no xserver.
user@linux:~$ glxinfo | grep OpenGL
OpenGL vendor string: Intel Open Source Technology Center
OpenGL renderer string: Mesa DRI Intel(R) Haswell Desktop
OpenGL core profile version string: 3.3 (Core Profile) Mesa 10.3.2
OpenGL core profile shading language version string: 3.30
OpenGL core profile context flags: (none)
OpenGL core profile profile mask: core profile
OpenGL core profile extensions:
OpenGL version string: 3.0 Mesa 10.3.2
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.30
OpenGL context flags: (none)
OpenGL extensions:
OpenGL ES profile version string: OpenGL ES 3.0 Mesa 10.3.2
OpenGL ES profile shading language version string: OpenGL ES GLSL ES 3.0
OpenGL ES profile extensions:
Em seguida, adicionei: mks.gl.allowBlacklistedDrivers = "TRUE"
ao final do arquivo * .vmx.
Isso funcionou para as VMs do Windows 8 e Windows 7.