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On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 1:43 PM, Matt Harrison |
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<iwasinnamuknow@×××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> Hi list, |
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> I have to run windows most of the time on my main desktop for work reasons, |
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> but every now and then I install a gentoo guest on vmware to see how the |
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> latest DMs are coming along. |
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> The current KDE4 is vastly improved from last time, extremely responsive and |
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> everything is really nice...except that I cannot get opengl working for |
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> compositing. |
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> The virtual machine has acceleration enabled, everything relevant has opengl |
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> compiled. I'm not very experienced with X/opengl/etc so I'm not sure what |
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> else needs to be done. |
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AFAIK there is nothing working currently that allows you to use 3D |
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acceleration in linux guest in VMWare. There are several non-working, |
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half-working, used-to-work-but-don't-anymore projects trying to |
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achieve it, but they're generally unmaintained and more of |
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proof-of-concept than ready for users. |
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The 3D acceleration does work for Windows guests, using the vmware |
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helper drivers. Last time I tried it (a year or so ago), it "worked" |
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as far as 3D being detected by the guest OS, but was not actually |
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useable for anything real because it was so buggy and incomplete. |
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I think the "official" way to use 3D in linux vmware guest is to use |
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the vmwgfx kernel module, building some specific (patched?) libdrm, |
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mesa with certain gallium configuration options, and enabling some |
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magic switches in your xorg.conf, though I have read that this hasn't |
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worked in a year or two. If you're using old versions of kernel & |
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everything then maybe it could work... |
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But I'm no expert in this area, maybe I'm wrong. ;) |
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