Am Montag, 28. Februar 2011, um 06.49:16 schrieb Hamish: > Cameron wrote: > > Maybe we should test to see if the application is being run inside a VM, > > and provide a popup warning if so. > > pop up a message at login next to the hello message perhaps? > or just amend the welcome.txt message with a note which is shown to > everyone. >
osgEarth ships with a new executable which checks OpenGL capabilities: osgearth_version --caps My proposal is to start the tutorial calling this to check wether the viewer will work. I will ask the osgEarth people for help on this. Pirmin > > Is it possible to test if you are running in a VM? > > you can look at what's in /proc/cpuinfo, but I doubt that's very reliable. > part of the point of having a VM is that the experience is seamless. > > > fwiw, my experience is that VMs are pretty well established with those in > my department who use Macs (needed to run pc-only software), but as for > even the most technical-aware pc and unix people, not at all. ymmv. > > > Hamish > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Live-demo mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/live-demo > http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc -- Pirmin Kalberer Sourcepole - Linux & Open Source Solutions http://www.sourcepole.com _______________________________________________ Live-demo mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/live-demo http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc
