CulunTse wrote:@jth:
VmWare is cool but virtualised 3D acceleration is HARD. It's available in some of the paid products, and possible in some of the free ones, I'm not too familiar with it.
The technical term you want to look for is "paravirtualised" GPU or passthrough graphics. This basically means you "steal" the GPU from the main system, and assign exclusively it to the VM.
There are also "guest mode" drivers, and I thought VmWare was working on something called "Virgil" (virtual gl) though that may be another vendor too.
Maybe also try VirtualBox, it tends to have more open source support.
Hope that helps, even if it's just a bunch of random pointers. It would be pretty cool if you could get it to work!
Spent some more time on the problem with VMware workstation player 12 and a brand new install of Ubuntu 15.04 and managed to apply
http://www.mesa3d.org/vmware-guest.html
and survive the experience this time
OpenGL vendor string: VMware, Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on SVGA3D; build: RELEASE;
OpenGL core profile version string: 3.3 (Core Profile) Mesa 11.2.0-rc3 (git-9f21fdd)
OpenGL core profile shading language version string: 3.30
OpenGL core profile context flags: (none)
OpenGL core profile profile mask: core profile
OpenGL core profile extensions:
OpenGL version string: 3.0 Mesa 11.2.0-rc3 (git-9f21fdd)
OpenGL shading language version string: 1.30
OpenGL context flags: (none)
OpenGL extensions:
OpenGL ES profile version string: OpenGL ES 3.0 Mesa 11.2.0-rc3 (git-9f21fdd)
OpenGL ES profile shading language version string: OpenGL ES GLSL ES 3.00
OpenGL ES profile extensions:
It was rather painful to get there
and surprisingly it actually works
It looked like it had hung the first time but I think it was still building stuff.
Frame rate of 25fps is about half of what I get under Windows 7 with the graphics at medium (linux) and ultra (windows). I have a GTX 960 card.
Found the savegame location and copied my Windoze ones over and so far so good.
The joystick button mappings are out of this world though
So I need to get them sorted out but it is seeing my Logitech Force 3D pro joystick. I can strafe fine but actually moving is a problem.
Managed to get into my Station Production Limiting mod Ok but its a bit early to say it works yet ... but its encouraging
If you would like to know where the elephant traps are please let me know
jth