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- <h1>The Mesa 3D Graphics Library</h1>
+ The Mesa 3D Graphics Library
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-<h1>VMware guest GL driver</h1>
+<h1>VMware SVGA3D Guest Driver</h1>
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This page describes how to build, install and use the
With the August 2015 Workstation 12 / Fusion 8 releases, OpenGL 3.3
is supported in the guest.
This requires:
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<li>The VM is configured for virtual hardware version 12.
<li>The host OS, GPU and graphics driver supports DX11 (Windows) or
<li>On Linux, the vmwgfx kernel module must be version 2.9.0 or later.
<li>A recent version of Mesa with the updated svga gallium driver.
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Otherwise, OpenGL 2.1 is supported.
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<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.
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- git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/mesa/mesa
+ git clone https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa.git
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<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.
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Most distros ship with this but it's safest to install a newer version.
To get the latest code from git:
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- git clone git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/mesa/drm
+ git clone https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/drm.git
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<li>xf86-video-vmware. The chainloading driver, vmware_drv.so, the legacy driver vmwlegacy_drv.so, and the vmwgfx driver vmwgfx_drv.so.
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Determine where the GL-related libraries reside on your system and set
the LIBDIR environment variable accordingly.
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For 32-bit Ubuntu systems:
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export LIBDIR=/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu
<li>Build libdrm:
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cd $TOP/drm
- ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr --libdir=${LIBDIR}
- make
- sudo make install
+ meson builddir --prefix=/usr --libdir=${LIBDIR}
+ ninja -C builddir
+ sudo ninja -C builddir install
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-<li>Build Mesa and the vmwgfx_dri.so driver, the vmwgfx_drv.so xorg driver, the X acceleration library libxatracker.
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+<p>Build Mesa and the vmwgfx_dri.so driver, the vmwgfx_drv.so xorg driver, the X acceleration library libxatracker.
The vmwgfx_dri.so is used by the OpenGL libraries during direct rendering,
and by the Xorg server during accelerated indirect GL rendering.
The libxatracker library is used exclusively by the X server to do render,
copy and video acceleration:
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The following configure options doesn't build the EGL system.
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cd $TOP/mesa
- ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr --libdir=${LIBDIR} --with-gallium-drivers=svga --with-dri-drivers=swrast --enable-xa --disable-dri3 --enable-glx-tls
- make
- sudo make install
+ meson builddir --prefix=/usr --libdir=${LIBDIR} -Dgallium-drivers=svga -Ddri-drivers=swrast -Dgallium-xa=true -Ddri3=false
+ ninja -C builddir
+ sudo ninja -C builddir install
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Note that you may have to install other packages that Mesa depends upon
if they're not installed in your system. You should be told what's missing.
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<li>xf86-video-vmware: Now, once libxatracker is installed, we proceed with
building and replacing the current Xorg driver.
<li>Make sure the vmwgfx kernel module is version 2.9.0 or later.
<li>Check the vmware.log file for errors.
<li>Run 'dmesg | grep vmwgfx' and look for "DX: yes".
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