Azure Virtual Machines

[Al Hart]

I'm trying to set up an Azure Virtual machine to Run SketchUp on.

When I run SketchUp, I get this error message:

*The following errors were found when launching SketchUp:

• Hardware acceleration is unsupported or has been disabled on your graphics card. SketchUp requires that you use a hardware accelerated graphics card.

Unfortunately, these errors will prevent SketchUp from running. Updating your graphics card drivers might fix the problem.

See this Help Center article for more information.*

Looking around, I found this:

https://forums.sketchup.com/t/running-sketchup-2017-via-vpn-launching-issue…

Workaround: Start Sketchup on the host computer and leave it running. Sketchup 2017 will then work remotely via Remote Desktop. This is presumably because they only perform the video card check when the program starts.
Re: other questions about configs: Yes, other operating systems and remote/VNC software can produce varied results. I'm only speaking about connecting to a Windows machine using the Microsoft Remote Desktop client software. (Note: The client operating system is not important here. I regularly connect to my remote Windows machine using both Mac and PC.)

But it didn't work for me.

Has anyone been able to run SketchUp on an Azure Virtual machine?

Perhaps I just need to select a machine with a GPU???

[juju]

Try Virtual Machine, I've used it in the past (admittedly a few years ago) with a fair amount of success, but not for SketchUp though. However, the problem you're having, IIRC I was able to configure a VM with access to the GFX hardware of the host machine.