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10 <h1>VMware guest GL driver
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13 This page describes how to build, install and use the
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15 (aka the SVGA or SVGA3D driver) for Linux using the latest source code.
16 This driver gives a Linux virtual machine access to the host's GPU for
17 hardware-accelerated
3D.
18 VMware Workstation running on Linux or Windows and VMware Fusion running on
19 MacOS are all supported.
23 End users shouldn't have to go through all these steps once the driver is
24 included in newer Linux distributions.
28 For more information about the X components see these wiki pages at x.org:
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34 xf86-video-vmware Details
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40 The components involved in this include:
42 <li>Linux kernel module: vmwgfx
43 <li>X server
2D driver: xf86-video-vmware
44 <li>User-space libdrm library
45 <li>Mesa/gallium OpenGL driver:
"svga"
49 <h2>Prerequisites
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52 <li>Kernel version at least
2.6.25
53 <li>Xserver version at least
1.7
54 <li>Ubuntu: For ubuntu you need to install a number of build dependencies.
56 sudo apt-get install git-core
57 sudo apt-get install automake libtool libpthread-stubs0-dev
58 sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-dev x11proto-xinerama-dev libx11-xcb-dev
59 sudo apt-get install libxcb-glx0-dev libxrender-dev
60 sudo apt-get build-dep libgl1-mesa-dri libxcb-glx0-dev
62 <li>Fedora: For Fedora you also need to install a number of build dependencies.
64 sudo yum install mesa-libGL-devel xorg-x11-server-devel xorg-x11-util-macros
65 sudo yum install libXrender-devel.i686
66 sudo yum install automake gcc libtool expat-devel kernel-devel git-core
67 sudo yum install makedepend flex bison
72 Depending on your Linux distro, other packages may be needed.
73 The configure scripts should tell you what's missing.
78 <h2>Getting the Latest Source Code
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80 Begin by saving your current directory location:
86 <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.
88 git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/mesa/mesa
90 <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.
92 git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/mesa/vmwgfx
95 <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:
97 git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/mesa/drm
99 <li>xf86-video-vmware. The chainloading driver, vmware_drv.so, the legacy driver vmwlegacy_drv.so, and the vmwgfx driver vmwgfx_drv.so.
101 git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/driver/xf86-video-vmware
106 <h2>Building the Code
</h2>
109 <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.
112 ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr --enable-vmwgfx-experimental-api --libdir=/usr/lib64
116 <li>Build Mesa and the vmwgfx_dri.so driver, the vmwgfx_drv.so xorg driver, the X acceleration library libxatracker.
117 The vmwgfx_dri.so is used by the OpenGL libraries during direct rendering,
118 and by the Xorg server during accelerated indirect GL rendering.
119 The libxatracker library is used exclusively by the X server to do render,
120 copy and video acceleration:
122 The following configure options doesn't build the EGL system.
124 As before, if you're on a
32-bit system, you should skip the --libdir
128 ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib64 --with-gallium-drivers=svga --with-dri-drivers= --enable-xa
133 Note that you may have to install other packages that Mesa depends upon
134 if they're not installed in your system. You should be told what's missing.
138 <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.
140 cd $TOP/xf86-video-vmware
141 ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib64
145 <li>vmwgfx kernel module. First make sure that any old version of this kernel module is removed from the system by issuing
147 sudo rm /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx.ko*
154 sudo cp
00-vmwgfx.rules /etc/udev/rules.d
160 Now try to load the kernel module by issuing
162 sudo modprobe vmwgfx
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166 to watch the debug output. It should contain a number of lines prefixed with
"[vmwgfx]".
169 Then restart the Xserver (or reboot).
170 The lines starting with
"vmwlegacy" or
"VMWARE" in the file /var/log/Xorg
.0.log
171 should now have been replaced with lines starting with
"vmwgfx", indicating that
172 the new Xorg driver is in use.
176 <h2>Running OpenGL Programs
</h2>
179 In a shell, run 'glxinfo' and look for the following to verify that the
184 OpenGL vendor string: VMware, Inc.
185 OpenGL renderer string: Gallium
0.4 on SVGA3D; build: RELEASE;
186 OpenGL version string:
2.1 Mesa
8.0
190 If you don't see this, try setting this environment variable:
192 export LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose
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194 then rerun glxinfo and examine the output for error messages.