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

[Emil Velikov]

Hi Brian,

On 10 November 2015 at 16:48, Brian Paul <brianp at vmware.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
I think there is a hunk missing about --enable-texture-float for
ARB_texture_float (and ultimately GL 3.0).

I have seen similar type of documents in the past, most of which going
out of date very quickly due to distribution changes and/or others.
Wondering how you'll feel about "check your distro and add svga to the
gallium-drivers array" style of instructions ? I'm not volunteering or
suggesting that one has to rewrite them, mostly curious.

Can you please sync the changes between mesa3d.org and the git repo.
Assuming only vmware-guest.html differs yet I've haven't checked the
rest bth.

Thanks
Emil