Mesa (master): docs: minor updates to VMware SVGA3D driver page

Brian Paul brianp at kemper.freedesktop.org
Thu Jan 9 18:37:00 UTC 2014


Module: Mesa
Branch: master
Commit: c47207d517684d3d7b102f2f39f02d37e31d6773
URL:    http://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/commit/?id=c47207d517684d3d7b102f2f39f02d37e31d6773

Author: Brian Paul <brianp at vmware.com>
Date:   Tue Jan  7 10:50:21 2014 -0700

docs: minor updates to VMware SVGA3D driver page

Signed-off-by: Brian Paul <brianp at vmware.com>

---

 docs/vmware-guest.html |   14 +++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/vmware-guest.html b/docs/vmware-guest.html
index 833f06c..b5ea4e0 100644
--- a/docs/vmware-guest.html
+++ b/docs/vmware-guest.html
@@ -27,9 +27,10 @@ MacOS are all supported.
 </p>
 
 <p>
-End users shouldn't have to go through all these steps once the driver is
-included in newer Linux distributions.
-Fedora 18 and Ubuntu 12.10 include the VMware guest GL driver, for example.
+Most modern Linux distros include the SVGA3D driver so end users shouldn't
+be concerned with this information.
+But if your distro lacks the driver or you want to update to the latest code
+these instructions explain what to do.
 </p>
 
 <p>
@@ -53,6 +54,13 @@ The components involved in this include:
 <li>Mesa/gallium OpenGL driver: "svga"
 </ul>
 
+<p>
+All of these components reside in the guest Linux virtual machine.
+On the host, all you're doing is running VMware
+<a href="http://www.vmware.com/products/workstation/">Workstation</a> or
+<a href="http://www.vmware.com/products/fusion/">Fusion</a>.
+</p>
+
 
 <h2>Prerequisites</h2>
 




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