For OpenGL developers, the advent of VMware Workstation 12 did bring a lot of "surprises", and the VMware Workstation 12 had a big boost to OpenGL's support version.
Prior to the release of VMware Workstation 12, only basic support for Opengl2.1,vmware Workstation 12 for OpenGL supported version OpenGL3.3, known as the core protocol interface currently supporting OpenGL3.3.
The students who reinstall the system with VM 12 generally do not encounter any problems, only need to be in the video card settings 3D accelerated to support OpenGL3.3. Prior to the installation of the system in the lower version of the VM, and then go directly to upgrade to VM12 's classmate, you need to change the virtualhw.version entry in the. vmx file to "12" as shown in:
Set and then re-open.
Also, students who develop OpenGL ES under Windows can use the OpenGL ES2.0 version (OpenGL ES2.0 has been available for OpenGL versions).
VMware Workstation support for OpenGL ES2.0 on Linux seems to be better than Windows earlier, and VMware Workstation11 uses Glxinfo to view version information.
Note: Installing Apt-get install mesa-utils and apt-get install Mesa-utils-extra allows Glxinfo to view support for OpenGL and OpenGL ES versions.
VMware Workstation 12,windows Support settings for OpenGL versions