Virtualbox-ose isn't cutting it (likely due to unrecognized hardware). I want to try VMware player.

I suspect that these trisquel (3.2.0-48) and linux-libre (3.10) kernels don't like some of my hardware. Particularly my graphics hardware... Its AMD "Vision" (CPU is AMD Athlon II 2.1GHZ). Some low-end integrated chip that was probably not produced in significant volume.

For instance:

1. In the details menu under system settings my graphics driver is unknown and "fallback".

2. I am stuck with GNOME classic. I originally got some kind of message saying the full GNOME environment could not be loaded.

3. VM performance in virtualbox is quite slow no matter which OS I use or which VM RAM config I use. I have 4GB of system ram so I normally allocate about 1.5-2.5GB to the VM.

4. I normally leave the graphics settings of the VM on default, but even increasing the graphics memory hasn't yielded any noticeable improvements.

5. The available desktop resolutions inside of all of the VMs are not ones which match the aspect ratio of my monitor so I end up with black bars inside of all of my VMs (black areas on the left and right to compensate for the resolution/ratio mismatch)

My intention is to use VMs as my container for all non-free software that I sometimes need to run. I debated triple booting (Win 7, Trisquel, and Debian) and using debian for most of my non-free software (Win 7 as last resort) but it doesn't seem worth it to me when I could just use VMs inside of Trisquel when needed. VMs are more flexible anyhow since they can relatively easily be ported over to another PC/device down the road if need be.

Unless there is some reasonably painless solution to my Virtualbox-ose issues I'd like to give VMware player a try. However, these (aforementioned) kernels appear to have discluded whatever modules/firmware/etc. are needed for VMware player so I'm still stuck with virtualbox-ose at the moment.