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11 <h1>The Mesa
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17 <h1>VMware guest GL driver
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20 This page describes how to build, install and use the
21 <a href=
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22 (aka the SVGA or SVGA3D driver) for Linux using the latest source code.
23 This driver gives a Linux virtual machine access to the host's GPU for
24 hardware-accelerated
3D.
25 VMware Workstation running on Linux or Windows and VMware Fusion running on
26 MacOS are all supported.
30 End users shouldn't have to go through all these steps once the driver is
31 included in newer Linux distributions.
35 For more information about the X components see these wiki pages at x.org:
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41 xf86-video-vmware Details
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47 The components involved in this include:
49 <li>Linux kernel module: vmwgfx
50 <li>X server
2D driver: xf86-video-vmware
51 <li>User-space libdrm library
52 <li>Mesa/gallium OpenGL driver:
"svga"
56 <h2>Prerequisites
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59 <li>Kernel version at least
2.6.25
60 <li>Xserver version at least
1.7
61 <li>Ubuntu: For ubuntu you need to install a number of build dependencies.
63 sudo apt-get install git-core
64 sudo apt-get install automake libtool libpthread-stubs0-dev
65 sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-dev x11proto-xinerama-dev libx11-xcb-dev
66 sudo apt-get install libxcb-glx0-dev libxrender-dev
67 sudo apt-get build-dep libgl1-mesa-dri libxcb-glx0-dev
69 <li>Fedora: For Fedora you also need to install a number of build dependencies.
71 sudo yum install mesa-libGL-devel xorg-x11-server-devel xorg-x11-util-macros
72 sudo yum install libXrender-devel.i686
73 sudo yum install automake gcc libtool expat-devel kernel-devel git-core
74 sudo yum install makedepend flex bison
79 Depending on your Linux distro, other packages may be needed.
80 The configure scripts should tell you what's missing.
85 <h2>Getting the Latest Source Code
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87 Begin by saving your current directory location:
93 <li>Mesa/Gallium master branch. This code is used to build libGL, and the direct rendering svga driver for libGL, vmwgfx_dri.so, and the X acceleration library libxatracker.so.x.x.x.
95 git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/mesa/mesa
97 <li>VMware Linux guest kernel module. Note that this repo contains the complete DRM and TTM code. The vmware-specific driver is really only the files prefixed with vmwgfx.
99 git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/mesa/vmwgfx
102 <li>libdrm, A user-space library that interfaces with drm. Most distros ship with this driver. Safest bet is really to replace the system one. Optionally you can point LIBDRM_CFLAGS and LIBDRM_LIBS to the libdrm-
2.4.22 package in toolchain. But here, we replace:
104 git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/mesa/drm
106 <li>xf86-video-vmware. The chainloading driver, vmware_drv.so, the legacy driver vmwlegacy_drv.so, and the vmwgfx driver vmwgfx_drv.so.
108 git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/driver/xf86-video-vmware
113 <h2>Building the Code
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116 <li>Build libdrm: If you're on a
32-bit system, you should skip the --libdir configure option. Note also the comment about toolchain libdrm above.
119 ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr --enable-vmwgfx-experimental-api --libdir=/usr/lib64
123 <li>Build Mesa and the vmwgfx_dri.so driver, the vmwgfx_drv.so xorg driver, the X acceleration library libxatracker.
124 The vmwgfx_dri.so is used by the OpenGL libraries during direct rendering,
125 and by the Xorg server during accelerated indirect GL rendering.
126 The libxatracker library is used exclusively by the X server to do render,
127 copy and video acceleration:
129 The following configure options doesn't build the EGL system.
131 As before, if you're on a
32-bit system, you should skip the --libdir
135 ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib64 --with-gallium-drivers=svga --with-dri-drivers= --enable-xa
140 Note that you may have to install other packages that Mesa depends upon
141 if they're not installed in your system. You should be told what's missing.
145 <li>xf86-video-vmware: Now, once libxatracker is installed, we proceed with building and replacing the current Xorg driver. First check if your system is
32- or
64-bit. If you're building for a
32-bit system, you will not be needing the --libdir=/usr/lib64 option to autogen.
147 cd $TOP/xf86-video-vmware
148 ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib64
152 <li>vmwgfx kernel module. First make sure that any old version of this kernel module is removed from the system by issuing
154 sudo rm /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx.ko*
161 sudo cp
00-vmwgfx.rules /etc/udev/rules.d
167 Now try to load the kernel module by issuing
169 sudo modprobe vmwgfx
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173 to watch the debug output. It should contain a number of lines prefixed with
"[vmwgfx]".
176 Then restart the Xserver (or reboot).
177 The lines starting with
"vmwlegacy" or
"VMWARE" in the file /var/log/Xorg
.0.log
178 should now have been replaced with lines starting with
"vmwgfx", indicating that
179 the new Xorg driver is in use.
183 <h2>Running OpenGL Programs
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186 In a shell, run 'glxinfo' and look for the following to verify that the
191 OpenGL vendor string: VMware, Inc.
192 OpenGL renderer string: Gallium
0.4 on SVGA3D; build: RELEASE;
193 OpenGL version string:
2.1 Mesa
8.0
197 If you don't see this, try setting this environment variable:
199 export LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose
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201 then rerun glxinfo and examine the output for error messages.