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

[Albert Freeman]

On 30 December 2015 at 23:24, Philipp Kemmeter <pk at philippkemmeter.de> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 08:44:33PM +1000, Albert Freeman wrote:
>> On 29 December 2015 at 21:21, Philipp Kemmeter <pk at philippkemmeter.de> wrote:
>> > 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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>>
>> try mesa git or something from the 11.1 branch, that version of mesa
>> (11.0.7) does not have GL 3.3 svga support
>>
>> I think "DX: no" is a bad thing, but I have never used vmwgfx before
>> (it is not a mesa issue though, either something wrong with the host
>> or the kernel)
>> also I think vmware.log is on the windows host
>
> Heya!
>
> I installed 11.1, but it didn't help:
>
> From glxinfo:
> OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 11.1.0
>
> I've found the vmware.log on the host, but it contains no errors, but
> confirms that it detected my graphics hardware and that it's directX11
> capable.
>
> I'm not quite sure what to do next.
>
> If have not "DX: no", I don't have a "DX: ..." at all in my log:
>
> # dmesg | grep vmwgfx
> [    1.896754] [drm] Initialized vmwgfx 2.9.0 20150810 for 0000:00:0f.0 on minor 0
>
> Don't know how to interprete this output.
>
> Kernel version is 4.3.2.
>
> Many thanks,
> Phil
>
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Sorry for the delayed reply, I believe my email glitched (did not show
that I had new emails from mesa-users).
Try this (if you are not using Arch Linux, you will have to adapt the
PKGBUILD scripts to something for your environment):
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1566380#p1566380
You shouldn't need to rebuild mesa or libdrm or the llvm packages.