> On May 6, 2016, at 11:19 AM, Richard Charles <rcharles...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> On May 5, 2016, at 10:33 PM, Charles Srstka <cocoa...@charlessoft.com> wrote: >> >>> On May 5, 2016, at 9:39 PM, Richard Charles <rcharles...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> >>>> On May 5, 2016, at 6:07 PM, Richard Charles <rcharles...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> Can you run this application? >>>> >>>> “OpenGL Extensions Viewer" >>>> >>>> http://www.realtech-vr.com/glview/ >>>> >>>> I could never get an app that uses OpenGL to work with a virtual machine. >>> >>> >>> >>>> On May 5, 2016, at 8:16 PM, Charles Srstka <cocoa...@charlessoft.com> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>> Seems to run all right in VMWare Fusion on my machine. >>> >>> >>> Amazing. >>> >>> Click the “Tests” tab and click the “Test” button in the lower left corner. >>> >>> Does it work? >>> >>> --Richard Charles >> >> I got an image of a rotating cube. >> >> Charles > > Interesting. > > According to VMware Fusion 8 Documentation a Mac OS X Virtual Machine does > not support 3D Accelerated graphics. > > http://pubs.vmware.com/fusion-8/index.jsp#com.vmware.fusion.using.doc/GUID-474FC78E-4E77-42B7-A1C6-12C2F378C5B9.html > > I just called VMware technical support and they confirmed that the product > does not support support 3D Accelerated graphics with a Mac virtual machine. > > So what is happening? Perhaps you are seeing the Apple OpenGL Software > Renderer being utilized by the OpenGL Extensions Viewer application. You can > set this with a pull down at the top of the window. > > I am currently developing a Mac application that uses OpenGL but I could > never get it to work with Parallels. I was never able to get the application > to fall back to using the Apple Software Renderer when OpenGL hardware was > not present. Perhaps I was not doing something correctly.
It does appear to be using the software renderer. However, the cube does display and do its rotating thing. Charles _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
