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
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
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
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
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