I need something that can run KDE Wayland session properly, including clipboard sync. VirtualBox has a broken clipboard (supposedly they plan to fix it), and it's only software rendering.
How does VMware implement OpenGL and Vulkan acceleration in the VM?
My guess would be something akin to VirGL where they forward opengl/vulkan commands to the host. I've never dug into the nitty gritty, but VMware workstation is recognized as a GPU accelerated app, and exposes a virtual GPU in the VM.
On the linux side, the vmwgfx kernel driver and DRM drivers are used. For X11 you use modesetting, and for Wayland whatever it auto-selects. I don't use KDE but I can confirm Debian's Gnome works out-of-the-box with the default Wayland backend (to be fair, the only other compositor I tried was Sway, which is known for being picky about the GPU used). Copy/paste works properly, as do general acceleration.
I use those VMs daily, fullscreen on a 1440p monitor, so acceleration is not optional :)
How does VMware implement OpenGL and Vulkan acceleration in the VM?