[Mesa-users] OpenGL 3.x, VMware Workstation 12 with vmwgfx 2.9.0 not working

[Philipp Kemmeter]

Heya!

I'm a games developer and try to set up a VM with gentoo linux and
vmware in order to test compiling and running our game in this
environment.

The host is running Windows 7 with 64bit, running dxdiag confirms, that
DirectX 11 is available (I have a physical intel HD 5500 gpu).

On the guest system I have gentoo installed with Kernel version 4.3.2.
All vmware capabilities are compiled into the kernel (not a module).

# dmesg | grep vmwgfx
[    1.896754] [drm] Initialized vmwgfx 2.9.0 20150810 for 0000:00:0f.0 on minor 0

So vmwgfx 2.9.0 is confirmed.

from lspci I get:
00:0f.0 VGA compatible controller: VMware SVGA II Adapter

# glxinfo | grep version
server glx version string: 1.4
client glx version string: 1.4
GLX version: 1.4
    Max core profile version: 0.0
    Max compat profile version: 2.1
    Max GLES1 profile version: 1.1
    Max GLES[23] profile version: 2.0
OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 11.0.7
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.20
OpenGL ES profile version string: OpenGL ES 2.0 Mesa 11.0.7
OpenGL ES profile shading language version string: OpenGL ES GLSL ES 1.0.16

I don't understand, why I do not have OpenGL 3.x, which I need to run my
game.

On http://www.mesa3d.org/vmware-guest.html it sais:

|    If OpenGL 3.3 is not working (you only get OpenGL 2.1):
|
|    - Make sure the VM uses hardware version 12.
|    - Make sure the vmwgfx kernel module is version 2.9.0 or later.
|    - Check the vmware.log file for errors.
|    - Run 'dmesg | grep vmwgfx' and look for "DX: yes". 


Where do I find the vmware.log? "find / -name vmware.log" does not find
a thing.

|    - Run 'dmesg | grep vmwgfx' and look for "DX: yes". 

Is it a good thing, that I don't have "DX: yes" or a bad thing and what
to do next? The documentation on this is a bit too little for me to find
the next step on my own.

Thanks a lot,
Phil
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