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

[Brian Paul]

On 11/09/2015 09:24 PM, Valera Rozuvan wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 4:13 AM, Brian Paul <brianp at vmware.com> wrote:
>> After running depmod, you probably need to update the initramfs with: 'sudo update-initramfs -u'
>>
>> -Brian
>
> Hi Brian. First of all, thank you for your reply. I have tried your
> suggestion on my working setup, and also doing everything again from
> scratch. Basically, I get the same result - everything goes smoothly,
> but in the end OpenGL is version 2.1. I even tried to run a simple
> OpenGL 3.x program, and it crashes (simple OpenGL 2.1 program runs
> fine).
>
> Can you please spend an hour and try the instructions from
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.mesa3d.org_vmware-2Dguest.html&d=BQIBaQ&c=Sqcl0Ez6M0X8aeM67LKIiDJAXVeAw-YihVMNtXt-uEs&r=T0t4QG7chq2ZwJo6wilkFznRSFy-8uDKartPGbomVj8&m=f2dfCFlDZuGGllk3HIqWXUyWbl6sPO1sA7SlX-79UG8&s=emo24XVRAaQOlitBEbGNBjqB348c25cFStvxj413YcU&e=  on a clean VMware Workstation
> 12 Player for Windows 64-bit (host), and Ubuntu 15.10 (guest)? It
> would be very awesome if you can get OpenGL 3.x running in VMware 12,
> and update the instructions. I am sure there is some critical piece
> missing.
>
> Thank you! = )

I've reviewed and updated the instructions at 
http://mesa3d.org/vmware-guest.html

In particular, the --libdir option is different for Ubuntu and I've 
updated some info about installing the kernel module.

Let me know how that goes.

-Brian