vmwgfx

[Doug Schaefer]

On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 3:53 AM, Christian Hergert
<christian.hergert at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 9:29 PM, Christopher Friedt
> <chrisfriedt at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 12:28 AM, Christopher Friedt
>> <chrisfriedt at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> In my opinion, it makes a lot of sense, but I have no idea if any of
>>> the vmware graphics drivers are open, which is a bit of a hinderance.
>>
>> I should say, if they're _not_ open, then it's a bit of a hinderance.
>
> Hi,
>
> The guest side of the code is open-source and available on
> freedesktop.org git. I haven't tried wayland on it yet, but I have
> gotten Gnome 3 with Mutter working with it. So I would imagine that is
> a large portion of the way there, if not already. (I don't work on
> that code at VMware, so I'm afraid I can't provide any better
> information).

I played with this a bit. I was able to compile libdrm and mesa for
the vmwgfx DRM driver and was able to get a simple glxgears running on
it. That was with the gallium EGL driver. I wasn't able to get Wayland
compiled for the same configuration and gave up on it. I may try later
when things stop churning in mesa for Wayland.

Doug.