On 12/04/17 07:15, Titusi Forum via shifter-users wrote: > Hello: > > I am running openGL application (e.g. Matlab) on a remote headless ubuntu Which Ubuntu version? (16.04 I would guess)
> server with no graphics card of its own. I am using XPRA 1.0 to remotely > transport the graphics to my local MSWin10 desktop. Which Xpra version on the client? > I am running into whole bunch of libGL errors saying swrast_dri.so library > is missing. Which exact errors messages? Those from matlab I assume. > I am guessing this is all related to the fact that I don't have graphics > card on the remote server. Isn't there any way to tell the application to > use software openGL in one way or other? There is: use Xdummy. It is disabled by default on some versions of Ubuntu (on 16.04): https://xpra.org/trac/wiki/Xdummy#Ubuntu > I tried using VirtualGL, but I am not sure how to use it with XPRA. First > of all, is this the right track? No. VirtualGL requires a GPU on the server. > If yes, then can you tell me if > $VGL_DISPLAY needs to point to the same display on which XPRA is running? > > I am pretty clueless at this point. Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > By the way XPRA works beautifully for non openGL applications for me. Works great for OpenGL applications too, just not with Ubuntu 16.04. Cheers Antoine > Thanks for the great software! > _______________________________________________ > shifter-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.devloop.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/shifter-users > _______________________________________________ shifter-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.devloop.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/shifter-users
