Hi, Andrew's patch seems to fix the issue for me.
Matteo, I couldn't get it to work after compiling and got it to work after doing the following: - Upgrade from VMWare Workstation 7 to workstation 9 (alternatively use Player 5) - Installed libgl1-mesa-dri-experimental (might not be needed - I did this and the above at the same time) 3D acceleration is working nicely now!