Civil 3D 2014 on VMWare ESXi 5.1

[KeynetixJS]

Hi,

I have performed a clean install of Civil 3D 2014 on a 64bit Windows 7 Virtual machine running on VMWare ESXi 5.1

When starting autocad for the first time I recieve the error message "a display driver file .hdi is missing or has been corrupted"

I have checked the folder "c:\Program Files\Autodesk\Autodesk AutoCAD Civil 3D 2014\Drv" and all .hdi files appear to be pressent.

Performing the same install but with Civil 3D 2013 works perfectly.

Can you please give me some suggestions as to the problem?

Thanks

[KeynetixJS]

Fixed It

I just needed to give the virtual graphic card more memory, and enable 3D support.

[Cadguru42]

I thought it was against Autodesk's terms to use C3D in a virtual machine? I could be wrong, though.

[jnelson1071]

@engrtech I looked it over again in the 2014 TOS and it would only be disallowed if the license was standalone. Network is fine up to the number of your licenses from what I read. 

@KeynetixJS, I had three computers during deployment that gave this same error message.  I ended up modifying their shortcut to add the "-nohardware" to the end of the switch options.  I suspect that the video driver for that card was not compatible or now that you mentioned the video ram I'll have to relook at that, thanks.

BTW, how is VMware working for you? We are getting ready to do some testing on it with some products.  Have any tips?

I know that most of the main 2014 products are Citrix XenApp approved, but our IT guys would like to utilize VMware instead.