SketchUp Hardware and Software Requirements …
Virtualized Environments
At this time, SketchUp doesn’t support operation in a virtualized environments such as VMWare or Citrix.
Per the SketchUp Pro License in section 1.1:You may not use or host the Software in a virtual server environment.Boot Camp/Parallels/VMWare
Neither Boot Camp, VMWare nor Parallels are supported environments.Remote Desktop Connections
Due to hardware restrictions in shared environments we can’t reliably predict how SketchUp will perform. At this time SketchUp is not supported via a Remote Desktop Connection (RDC) on any platform.
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The main problem is that a virtual desktop uses a virtual machine with a software simulated graphics card that cannot support hardware acceleration (because it is not real hardware.)