Of course if you are running VirtualBox or VMWare, you can simply run Windows in the VM instance, run the VM instance in VirtualGL, and run VirtualGL in TurboVNC or TigerVNC. That is in fact the supported solution for running Windows 3D apps remotely using open source tools. WinVNC will not work well (or at all) with 3D apps.
As to performance, TurboVNC is configured by default to produce the best LAN performance and image quality for 3D apps, because that's its primary purpose. To get similar behavior in TigerVNC, select compression level 1 with quality level 8. Turbo still has multithreaded encoding and automatic lossless refresh and a few other things that TigerVNC lacks, things which benefit 3D apps, but Tiger has features like Xinerama that Turbo lacks. > On Jun 5, 2014, at 2:19 AM, Pierre Ossman <oss...@cendio.se> wrote: > > On Wed, 4 Jun 2014 13:52:12 -0400, > Brian Hinz wrote: > >> On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 12:43 PM, maria del piano <spupa...@hotmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Hi, I'm not familiar on using vnc, but basically I need to connect to a vm >>> (installed on the same >>> pc on which I'll visualize its content) on which 3d applications (mostly >>> games will be running). >> >> I suggest that you look into VirtualGL + TurboVNC, as that particular >> flavor of VNC is optimized for 3D applications. TigerVNC can support >> OpenGL applications, but only via software rendering, which is highly CPU >> intensive and will likely be the bottleneck. VGL on the other hand can >> offload those operations to the GPU. > > VirtualGL works will with TigerVNC as well though, so you can use > either VNC server. > > But VirtualGL assumes Linux (or at least Unix). And it sounds like > you'll be running Windows. In that case you'll have to use our WinVNC. > You don't have to worry about 3D acceleration at that point, which is a > plus. But unfortunately WinVNC isn't very optimised so I don't think > you'll get very good performance. :/ > > Rgds > -- > Pierre Ossman Software Development > Cendio AB http://cendio.com > Teknikringen 8 http://twitter.com/ThinLinc > 583 30 Linköping http://facebook.com/ThinLinc > Phone: +46-13-214600 http://plus.google.com/+CendioThinLinc > > A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. > Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book > "Graph Databases" is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their > applications. Written by three acclaimed leaders in the field, > this first edition is now available. Download your free book today! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/NeoTech > _______________________________________________ > Tigervnc-users mailing list > Tigervnc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tigervnc-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book "Graph Databases" is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. Written by three acclaimed leaders in the field, this first edition is now available. Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/NeoTech _______________________________________________ Tigervnc-users mailing list Tigervnc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tigervnc-users
