[Mesa-dev] Can't get OpenGL 3.x inside VMware Workstation 12 (Ubuntu guest)

[Brian Paul]

On 11/09/2015 05:01 PM, Valera Rozuvan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have been trying to follow the instructions from the page
> http://www.mesa3d.org/vmware-guest.html . My host OS is Windows 7, which
> has OpenGL 4.3 and DX11, my Guest OS is Ubuntu 15.10 with custom Linux
> kernel 4.3. Please see detailed output from various host Ubuntu
> subsystems at http://pastebin.com/Kukct9Xn . Also, I have dual GPU:
> Intel(R) HD Graphics 4600 and NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M.
>
> I have followed all of the instructions, but sill get OpenGL 2.1. What
> else can I try?
>
> By the way, on the page http://www.mesa3d.org/vmware-guest.html the step:
>
> sudo cp 00-vmwgfx.rules /etc/udev/rules.d
>
> can't be completed, because the file 00-vmwgfx.rules is not in the
> vmwgfx folder. I got this file from
> http://sourceforge.net/p/thinstation/thinstation-5/ci/c9c66d2e93fed90fa0c985df93adf3e66522bda5/tree/ts/5.2/packages/systemd/build/extra/etc/udev/rules.d/00-vmwgfx.rules
> . Is this acceptable?

I need to update the docs.  The 00-vmwgfx.rules file is no longer needed.


>
> Also, the command "sudo depmod -ae" complains about improper command
> line options.

depmod -a should be enough.


>
> Any input on my problem will be very welcome!

After running depmod, you probably need to update the initramfs with: 
'sudo update-initramfs -u'

-Brian