X11 server that supports OpenGL 1.5 or higher

[Joe Hays]

Thanks for the insight. I've not heard of a scenario like that. Can you
suggest a tool for the compressing remote access protocol?

On Fri, Jun 5, 2020, 12:13 PM Nathan Kidd <nathan-ml at spicycrypto.ca> wrote:

> On 2020-06-04 8:10 p.m., Joe Hays wrote:
> > I've started looking in to using VirtualGL. I got it working but am
> > finding almost similar performance as the software rendering when using
> > vanilla X11 Forwarding. Since this is my first rodeo with VirtualGL I'm
> > sure that there is some setting that I have not configured properly...
> > Or, it could simply be throttled by my work's VPN connection.
>
> Based on your mention of Xming and Cygwin, sounds like you're runing
> your X server on local desktop with app remote over the VPN.  In this
> case the performance bottleneck is almost certainly sending uncompressed
> rasterized images over the VPN; it won't matter who is doing the OpenGL
> rendering.  For decent performance in that case you'll need to run the X
> server on the app host side and use a compressing remote access protocol
> from your desktop to remote X server.
>
> -Nathan
>
>
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