Concerning the status of emulating 3D features for letting Moblin 2.1
run under VMWare (Fusion 3).
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http://communities.vmware.com/message/1432534#1432534
Author : AlexCorscadden
Message:
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We've recently pushed a driver into the X repositories that supports
KMS and DRI (and OpenGL 2.1 support), I'm not sure if it's DRI2 or
not. NRX isn't something that we'd need to directly support; as far
as I know as that's mostly a property of the X server itself. From
what I know about our 3D/KMS driver, it shouldn't require root
access. Getting it all to work at the moment requires a bleeding edge
kernel + some patches, X server, mesa, libdrm and a few other
components, but it is possible. You'll likely need to spend some time
compiling if you want to get this working.
The git repo is here (http://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/vmwgfx/)
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It would be marvellous if Moblin knowledgeable people could tell if
this is enough, or if something more is required.
I am one of the people that would just want to have it working, in
order to be able to test run Moblin. Thanks.
-asko
Asko Kauppi kirjoitti 3.12.2009 kello 8:44:
Greg KH kirjoitti 1.12.2009 kello 20:18:
On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 08:12:56PM +0200, Asko Kauppi wrote:
I was trying to evaluate Moblin for an embedded project, but it does
not currently run under VMWare (Fusion 3.0 to be precise).
What's the plan on virtualization support, and who is to make the
effort? Moblin community or VMWare?
Any pointers to a working solution would be appreciated.
If you read the archives of this mailing list, you will see the
problem
in detail, and what needs to be done to solve it (hint, it involves
vmware, not moblin).
If you mean setting up hard disk as IDE instead of SCSI, that I had
done.
How it seems to me based on my own experience and browsing the
archive is that Moblin 2.1 cannot be run on VMWare (Fusion 3.0).
Period.
The screen remains in black showing white "moblin" text. Does not
progress further.
This was the most informative piece:
"unfortunately, vmware currently doesn't have the level of 3D
graphics support that the moblin UI
needs (including DRI2, KMS and NRX) and as a result this is
currently not going to work.. "
http://groups.google.com/group/moblin-dev/browse_thread/thread/c19048ed1eed8a6d/ef7f0994edc442b5?lnk=gst&q=vmware#ef7f0994edc442b5
I will try to ask VMWare to support those technologies.
- asko
good luck,
greg k-h
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