On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 2:33 PM, Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 1:43 PM, Matt Harrison > <iwasinnamuk...@genestate.com> wrote: >> Hi list, >> >> I have to run windows most of the time on my main desktop for work reasons, >> but every now and then I install a gentoo guest on vmware to see how the >> latest DMs are coming along. >> >> The current KDE4 is vastly improved from last time, extremely responsive and >> everything is really nice...except that I cannot get opengl working for >> compositing. >> >> The virtual machine has acceleration enabled, everything relevant has opengl >> compiled. I'm not very experienced with X/opengl/etc so I'm not sure what >> else needs to be done. > > AFAIK there is nothing working currently that allows you to use 3D > acceleration in linux guest in VMWare. There are several non-working, > half-working, used-to-work-but-don't-anymore projects trying to > achieve it, but they're generally unmaintained and more of > proof-of-concept than ready for users. > > The 3D acceleration does work for Windows guests, using the vmware > helper drivers. Last time I tried it (a year or so ago), it "worked" > as far as 3D being detected by the guest OS, but was not actually > useable for anything real because it was so buggy and incomplete. > > I think the "official" way to use 3D in linux vmware guest is to use > the vmwgfx kernel module, building some specific (patched?) libdrm, > mesa with certain gallium configuration options, and enabling some > magic switches in your xorg.conf, though I have read that this hasn't > worked in a year or two. If you're using old versions of kernel & > everything then maybe it could work... > > But I'm no expert in this area, maybe I'm wrong. ;) >
I will add that maybe you can do something more simple like client/server relationship between your host and guest, just use your non-virtual X server to render the "remote" (virtualized) programs.
