Certain Qt OpenGL/3D examples work, others don't (black screen) on Debian 9 VM with Qt 5.11.1

Diracsbracket

Hi,
I just installed Qt 5.11.1 on Debian 9.5 (VMware) with the default GNOME desktop and Cairo dock, and tested it with some openGL/3D examples.

These fail with a black screen:

• Boxes
http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtwidgets-graphicsview-boxes-example.html
• Planets QML Example (however the Canvas3D implementation of this works, see below).
https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qt3d-planets-qml-example.html
• OpenGL Window
http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtgui-openglwindow-example.html

The following examples however work:

• Scene Graph - OpenGL Under QML
http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtquick-scenegraph-openglunderqml-example.html
• Planets Canvas3D example
https://doc.qt.io/qt-5.11/qtcanvas3d-threejs-planets-example.html
• Interactive Mobile Phone Example
https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtcanvas3d-threejs-cellphone-example.html
• Qt Quick 2 Surface Multiseries Example
https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtdatavisualization-qmlsurfacelayers-example.html

What is the common denominator in each of the two groups of examples above? How can I resolve the black screen problem?

Thank you for your help!

Diracsbracket

As a temporary workaround, I disabled 3D Hardware acceleration in the VMware display settings; this makes the examples that failed above also work. Kind of.

Although I will mark this post as Solved, any suggestions to make those examples work in VMware with 3D Acceleration enabled are welcomed.

I checked with

glxinfo | grep OpenGL

That the Debian VM is correctly configured.

glxinfo | grep OpenGL
OpenGL vendor string: VMware, Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on SVGA3D; build: RELEASE;  LLVM;
OpenGL core profile version string: 3.3 (Core Profile) Mesa 13.0.6
OpenGL core profile shading language version string: 3.30
OpenGL core profile context flags: (none)
OpenGL core profile profile mask: core profile
OpenGL core profile extensions:
OpenGL version string: 3.0 Mesa 13.0.6
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.30
OpenGL context flags: (none)
OpenGL extensions:
OpenGL ES profile version string: OpenGL ES 3.0 Mesa 13.0.6
OpenGL ES profile shading language version string: OpenGL ES GLSL ES 3.00
OpenGL ES profile extensions:

and

glxinfo | grep "direct"
direct rendering: Yes
    GL_ARB_depth_buffer_float, GL_ARB_depth_clamp, GL_ARB_direct_state_access,

Also, as suggest in
As suggested https://www.mesa3d.org/vmware-guest.html I tried to change:

virtualHW.version = "14"

to

virtualHW.version = "12"

but that did not work.

I have installed the latest open-vm-tools-desktop for the distribution, but have not tried yet with the default VMware tools provided by VMware itself, as I read somewhere that this does not work either.