GPU not being used.

[Snoopy]

I am aware that my post has put in multiple times the phrase:
'The-Distribution-Which-Does-Not-Handle-OpenCL-Well'

Be assured I didn't write that when posting, the website has automatically put it in.
I find it annoying.

K.A.L.I is known for 'The-Distribution-Which-Does-Not-Handle-OpenCL-Well', this is done by the forumsoftware on the fly do give you and any other person the hint, DONT use k.a.l.i...

regarding your other questions, hashcat uses opencl, cuda and hip to "talk" to your hardware directly, vmware well is a virtualizing software, virtualizing cpu and gpu and other "hardware"

take a look at your gpu inside your vm, it will be telling you something like this

Code:

root@minty:/var/www# lspci | grep -i vga
00:0f.0 VGA compatible controller: VMware SVGA II Adapter

this is not your "hardware graphics-card" it is software emulated, running hashcat inside an emulator with an emulated graphics-card, well just think one second about this and you will get the point

use hashcat or newest hashcat beta from https://hashcat.net/beta/ plain on your windows 10, dont forget to install cuda sdk as stated on the landingpage and everything should be running fine

also, you can run 

Code:

hashcat -I

to see which devices are recognized (and therefore can be used) by hashcat

next thing, your are running a pure kernel, see option -O to use optimzed kernel

last but not least, your hash has as salt "aReallyHardSalt", well it is possible to generate valid mode 1800 hashes with a given salt but it is very unlikey, that your hash is a real world attack target because on normal linux machines this salt is randomly generated

to use cpu and gpu combined (normally hc will use gpu only) you will also need the option -D1,2 combined with -d* but the * depends on the output of hashcat -I