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

[Brian Paul]

On 11/11/2015 08:44 AM, Emil Velikov wrote:
> 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
>> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__mesa3d.org_vmware-2Dguest.html&d=BQIFaQ&c=Sqcl0Ez6M0X8aeM67LKIiDJAXVeAw-YihVMNtXt-uEs&r=T0t4QG7chq2ZwJo6wilkFznRSFy-8uDKartPGbomVj8&m=8UjWNV8TUt02VRSItAMguiKXASEh2kzlITp9wZQKoBU&s=sf309mmdWTsjAQi6L5RoKDbJP4xmIpTkAu8KmEa0kLo&e=
>>
>> 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).

N/A; that option defines the TEXTURE_FLOAT_ENABLED symbol which is only 
tested in _mesa_enable_sw_extensions().


>
> 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 out of date very quickly due to distribution changes and/or others.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 afraid I don't quite understand what you're saying there.  Can you 
elaborate?


> 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.

I put the tentative updates on the website so that Valera could access 
them easily and test.  Once they're confirmed to work, I'll commit the 
changes into the git tree.  I figured that'd be easier for Valera to use 
than a patch against the html code.

-Brian