On 24 July 2014 12:07, Evan Dandrea <[email protected]> wrote: > Yesterday I got a request from the SDK team to help them set up some > automated testing by October. As one might imagine, this requires a > phone or the emulator: > > https://docs.google.com/a/canonical.com/document/d/1D7J8TgxqDBpuilE8z1EGtUF4OK_kGQm39DodzVbbOKY/edit?usp=drive_web > > I've directed us down the path of running the emulator on top of bare > metal, provisioned using MAAS and Juju, because nested kvm has been > problematic in the past. This came with the backing of IS. > > Still, the more requests I get for services that would require either > nested kvm or a more complex setup, the more I want to see for myself > how much of a problem it really is. So in the background last night I > started to investigate. > > After some false starts with the wrong emulator package¹, I managed to > piece together the following: > sudo add-apt-respository ppa:phablet-team/tools # for the correct > emulator package and phablet-tools > sudo apt-get install bzr ubuntu-emulator xvfb > sudo ubuntu-emulator create --arch=i386 myinstance > xvfb-run ubuntu-emulator run --memory=1024 myinstance >
You want to make xvfb-run to give you more pixels and higher color depth than the default 800x600x8bit. And instead use something sensible, cause low color depth is not enough for GL to work. > Unfortunately this isn't enough to get a working environment: > buntu@juju-lcy-machine-0:~$ LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose xvfb-run glxinfo > name of display: :99 > libGL: screen 0 does not appear to be DRI3 capable > libGL: OpenDriver: trying /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/dri/tls/swrast_dri.so > libGL: OpenDriver: trying /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/dri/swrast_dri.so > libGL: driver does not expose __driDriverGetExtensions_swrast(): > /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/dri/swrast_dri.so: undefined symbol: > __driDriverGetExtensions_swrast > libGL: Can't open configuration file /home/ubuntu/.drirc: No such file > or directory. > libGL: Can't open configuration file /home/ubuntu/.drirc: No such file > or directory. > libGL error: failed to load driver: swrast > Error: couldn't find RGB GLX visual or fbconfig > Error: couldn't find RGB GLX visual or fbconfig > > Dimitri and I tried to work through this a bit. Thinking it was due to > missing GL packages, I installed the ubuntu-desktop metapackage. This > didn't help. > > So that's where we're at. It looks like nested kvm might work after > all, but we now have a problem getting gallium and llvmpipe to step in > and provide software-based 3D rendering. > > ¹ https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1347737 -- Regards, Dimitri. -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~canonical-ci-engineering Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~canonical-ci-engineering More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
