VMware graphic drivers being used instead of Ubuntu Intel

In the VM, what is the output of:

sudo lshw -C display; lsb_release -a

Thanks

well, that was quick!! thank you! Wanting to upgrade brings 'Running the 'unity' desktop environment is not fully supported by your graphics hardware'. I still have a year till (12.04.05) end-of-life, but other machines are running 14.04.

lshw -C display:

 description: VGA compatible controller
       product: 2nd Generation Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller
       vendor: Intel Corporation
       physical id: 2
       bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
       version: 09
       width: 64 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: msi pm vga_controller bus_master cap_list
       configuration: latency=0
       resources: memory:fe000000-fe3fffff memory:c0000000-cfffffff ioport:f000(size=64)

 lsb_release -a brings:
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS
Release: 12.04
Codename: precise

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Could use LXDE. It's lighter and will run better in a VM. The hardware in a VM is virtualized so you will see a virtualized video card too. Make sure you install the VMware tools in the OS.

Thanks for your help. I'll consider then a complete new install next year and perhaps even dual-boot instead of using a VM.

Still do no know, however, why the VMware graphic drivers should be indicated by the unity_support_test even if I haven't started up VMware Player and why lshw -C display should bring a blank after configuration (instead of =i915 or such).

Problem lay with monitor sending false EDID data, had to use nomodeset. Changed monitor, deleted nomodeset and was able to upgrade. Didn't want to mess with .conf file.