From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from <gentoo-user+bounces-123959-garchives=archives.gentoo.org@lists.gentoo.org>) id 1QU25A-00009I-H4 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 07 Jun 2011 19:36:56 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A8EE21C0E9; Tue, 7 Jun 2011 19:35:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-vw0-f53.google.com (mail-vw0-f53.google.com [209.85.212.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70D0E1C0E9 for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Tue, 7 Jun 2011 19:35:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vws13 with SMTP id 13so4841183vws.40 for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Tue, 07 Jun 2011 12:35:22 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from :date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:to:content-type; bh=20FznhBWX/j8FdaFttQPw1Ce1TUZFdyyWgckK3aXfwM=; b=pPZeoqkBMn3oIGQQaaq/m1jjDx3MdE+uNfJtaPwcwBk0WssXLligOgGvgDZx1fra1z cxa2KDmpZh4N8oFxnKLk9jIpupaWijnZLNRzYWnCIVu3YevlOZUleGcY6SFPCZilxX+U 62ZWTNiaqFZicbhxOsscGqcdcA5bwl1vbVTGw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:to:content-type; b=Bj0vKIeXoG59iJW2iE/MZiuU2WyPi2QXOq9xdlHi1aHAPU4W9qjQ4jSrsd+1V7eGWp 6PHgEppPciICskQJNMLLWNROB/Phx+8q7NmK+x/JJ1f+85A8N/gETPZwv6BWSUytg18G DWaALubc1Usg89Iqp973KgR65QYC5mNQuVUTQ= Received: by 10.52.76.193 with SMTP id m1mr303417vdw.204.1307475321708; Tue, 07 Jun 2011 12:35:21 -0700 (PDT) Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-user+help@lists.gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+unsubscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+subscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-user.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: paul.hartman@gmail.com Received: by 10.52.169.8 with HTTP; Tue, 7 Jun 2011 12:35:01 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <BANLkTi=fVZAStSymWEn+F0L4h+y=0Y6faQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <4DEE715C.8010606@genestate.com> <BANLkTi=fVZAStSymWEn+F0L4h+y=0Y6faQ@mail.gmail.com> From: Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2011 14:35:01 -0500 X-Google-Sender-Auth: KX7UhhLkdfYOsAtVJgcB5oGMVqs Message-ID: <BANLkTimUfB7z8qw3YtJj44i5jH=zRuUfuQ@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] vmware opengl To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: b6224223995c7f601229b1fbd79e4e78 On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 2:33 PM, Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 1:43 PM, Matt Harrison > <iwasinnamuknow@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.