VLC not playing video in Virtual Machines

[Timothy Grove]

I'm not seeing any video playback when running VLC (any version) in virtual machines, either VirtualBox or Parallels Desktop. More importantly, in a Python3.4-PyQt4 application I'm developing I make use of the vlc bindings for python, and I'm not seeing any video playback. Activity in player controls seem to indicate that videos are 'playing', but the window where the video should be displaying simply remains black.

My application and the VLC player on its own work fine when I'm running natively under Mavericks, but when I'm running under Snow Leopard or El Capitan in either VirtualBox or Parallels, I see no video displayed.

Has anyone else experience such problems? Any suggested solutions? Thanks.

[fkuehne]

You don't have correct graphics card drivers installed then.

[Timothy Grove]

I wish it was as simple as that, unless you can tell me where to download drivers for a MacBook Pro? I use Eclipse for development, and it's console reports 3 errors when trying to play videos:
1. no Open GL hardware acceleration found
2. Open GL acceleration not supported on your Mac
3. Your Mac lacks Quartz Extreme acceleration which is required for output

I'm sure these point to the problem but I haven't found the answer to it yet. Is there a way to switch off the need for hardware acceleration in VLC, via the commandline?

[dfuhrmann]

No, you need to installed proper graphic cards drivers. Please ask the virtualization software company to provide graphic card drivers for the OS X guests.

[gerhardenninga]

Me was remotely helped by the Support of Parallels Desktop: PD Actions -> Configure -> Hardware -0> Network -> Network Mode Standard

VLC is running fine the German IP-TV Playlist. Many thanks to PD Support! // Gerhard