[gentoo-user] vmware opengl
Hi list, I have to run windows most of the time on my main desktop for work reasons, but every now and then I install a gentoo guest on vmware to see how the latest DMs are coming along. The current KDE4 is vastly improved from last time, extremely responsive and everything is really nice...except that I cannot get opengl working for compositing. The virtual machine has acceleration enabled, everything relevant has opengl compiled. I'm not very experienced with X/opengl/etc so I'm not sure what else needs to be done. glxinfo gives me: name of display: :0 Error: couldn't find RGB GLX visual or fbconfig I'm not sure if it's even possible to get opengl working here...but I assume it is as a mythbuntu vm works perfectly displaying live tv etc. Anyway, any tips on this subject appreciated. It's hard to find anything on google related to this. Many thanks
Re: [gentoo-user] vmware opengl
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 1:43 PM, Matt Harrison iwasinnamuk...@genestate.com wrote: Hi list, I have to run windows most of the time on my main desktop for work reasons, but every now and then I install a gentoo guest on vmware to see how the latest DMs are coming along. The current KDE4 is vastly improved from last time, extremely responsive and everything is really nice...except that I cannot get opengl working for compositing. The virtual machine has acceleration enabled, everything relevant has opengl compiled. I'm not very experienced with X/opengl/etc so I'm not sure what else needs to be done. AFAIK there is nothing working currently that allows you to use 3D acceleration in linux guest in VMWare. There are several non-working, half-working, used-to-work-but-don't-anymore projects trying to achieve it, but they're generally unmaintained and more of proof-of-concept than ready for users. The 3D acceleration does work for Windows guests, using the vmware helper drivers. Last time I tried it (a year or so ago), it worked as far as 3D being detected by the guest OS, but was not actually useable for anything real because it was so buggy and incomplete. I think the official way to use 3D in linux vmware guest is to use the vmwgfx kernel module, building some specific (patched?) libdrm, mesa with certain gallium configuration options, and enabling some magic switches in your xorg.conf, though I have read that this hasn't worked in a year or two. If you're using old versions of kernel everything then maybe it could work... But I'm no expert in this area, maybe I'm wrong. ;)
Re: [gentoo-user] vmware opengl
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 2:33 PM, Paul Hartman paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 1:43 PM, Matt Harrison iwasinnamuk...@genestate.com wrote: Hi list, I have to run windows most of the time on my main desktop for work reasons, but every now and then I install a gentoo guest on vmware to see how the latest DMs are coming along. The current KDE4 is vastly improved from last time, extremely responsive and everything is really nice...except that I cannot get opengl working for compositing. The virtual machine has acceleration enabled, everything relevant has opengl compiled. I'm not very experienced with X/opengl/etc so I'm not sure what else needs to be done. AFAIK there is nothing working currently that allows you to use 3D acceleration in linux guest in VMWare. There are several non-working, half-working, used-to-work-but-don't-anymore projects trying to achieve it, but they're generally unmaintained and more of proof-of-concept than ready for users. The 3D acceleration does work for Windows guests, using the vmware helper drivers. Last time I tried it (a year or so ago), it worked as far as 3D being detected by the guest OS, but was not actually useable for anything real because it was so buggy and incomplete. I think the official way to use 3D in linux vmware guest is to use the vmwgfx kernel module, building some specific (patched?) libdrm, mesa with certain gallium configuration options, and enabling some magic switches in your xorg.conf, though I have read that this hasn't worked in a year or two. If you're using old versions of kernel everything then maybe it could work... But I'm no expert in this area, maybe I'm wrong. ;) I will add that maybe you can do something more simple like client/server relationship between your host and guest, just use your non-virtual X server to render the remote (virtualized) programs.
