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

[Emil Velikov]

On 11 November 2015 at 16:48, Brian Paul <brianp at vmware.com> wrote:
> On 11/11/2015 08:44 AM, Emil Velikov wrote:

>>
>> 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 out of date very quickly due to distribution changes and/or others.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?
>
>
Rather than walking through the requirements, configure and make/make
install steps, just forward people to the distro specific wiki on "how
to build mesa/kernel" and explicitly mention the differences:
mesa:
- XA must be enabled: --enable-xa
- svga must be listed in the gallium drivers: --with-gallium-drivers=svga...

kernel:
 - Set DRM_VMWGFX

others...

Related: does the upstream [1] vmwgfx module work well when combined
with upstream core drm across different versions ? Considering how
well Thomas is handling upstreaming shouldn't the module from the
kernel be recommended ?

For example some of us had nasty experiences where versions of vmware
player/workstation ships/builds/uses kernel modules which "clash" with
the ones already bundled in the kernel package. With "clash" - there
is no guarantee whether the upstream or downstream module gets loaded,
and due difference in the symbols provided one does encounter
"function_foo() error Invalid argument" type of messages, and
ultimately things just not working.

Thanks
Emil

[1] http://cgit.freedesktop.org/mesa/vmwgfx/