Using JavaFX on VMWare / Linux

2015-02-26 Thread Adam Granger
The company I work at mandate Linux development is done on a Redhat 6.x guest within VMPlayer/Workstation on top of a Windows XP host. Previous debugging has led me to believe, correct me if I'm wrong, that drivers in the guest used to support OpenGL via VMWare expose the guests hardware/driver st

Re: Using JavaFX on VMWare / Linux

2015-02-26 Thread Chien Yang
Hi Adam, I would like to inform you that VMware is not a certified hypervisor for Oracle JDK 8 and JRE 8, and hardware rendering is not supported in guest systems on Oracle VM, VirtualBox and Hyper-V Server 2012. Please see this link for details information: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork

Re: Using JavaFX on VMWare / Linux

2015-02-27 Thread Jörg Wille
Hi Adam, VMWare is not officially supported but as my test shows, only DirectX rendering does not work. If you do not have high workload for graphics in your application you can force software rendering by starting your application like this: java -Dprism.order=es2,j2d -jar app.jar (This tries out

Re: Using JavaFX on VMWare / Linux

2015-02-27 Thread Kevin Rushforth
Chien is correct that this is not a supported config. However, I know of cases where it has been used successfully without HW acceleration enabled (not sure whether it would work with HW acceleration, but there would be more risk in doing that). -- Kevin Chien Yang wrote: Hi Adam, I would

Re: Using JavaFX on VMWare / Linux

2015-02-27 Thread Kevin Rushforth
We neither test nor recommend using the j2d pipeline for onscreen rendering, so that should be: java -Dprism.order=es2,sw ... -- Kevin Jörg Wille wrote: Hi Adam, VMWare is not officially supported but as my test shows, only DirectX rendering does not work. If you do not have high workload fo