On Feb 27, 2011, at 8:58 PM, Cameron Shorter wrote:
On 28/02/11 14:29, Hamish wrote:
Cameron wrote:
It might be the case that OSGEarth doesn't work without
OpenGL support. If that is the case, is it possible to fail
gracefully? Eg: In a wrapper bash script test for the
existence of OpenGL. If it doesn't exist, present up popup
alert stating "This computer seems to be missing OpenGL
support is required to fully make use of OGLEarth. Elements
of this program will not work as expected."
Virtual Machines + OpenGL are a know problem (bug) industry wide.
AFAIK
we've done all we can and are installing everything needed, and if the
ISO is burnt onto a physical DVD or USB stick and booted from that
then
everything works correctly.
not much we can do about it. hopefully a newer version of VirtualBox
or
whatever makes this better.
Hamish
I expect that a significant proportion of our users will test
OSGeo-Live from a Virtual Machine. (I guess 20% to 30%). Maybe we
should test to see if the application is being run inside a VM, and
provide a popup warning if so. Is it possible to test if you are
running in a VM?
Here in the Bay Area, next to Silicon Valley, I would expect that
number to be closer to 100%
Is it up to the LiveDVD to handle the Virtual Machine case?
-Brian
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