Created a GitHub issue to track this:

https://github.com/VirtualGL/virtualgl/issues/25

On 7/17/16 6:21 PM, DRC wrote:
> I've reproduced the problem, but I'm clueless as to what's causing it.
> Symptomatically, what's happening is that, when the VGL faker attempts
> to load a symbol from libGL using dlsym(), dlsym() returns the
> interposed symbol from the VGL faker instead.  No idea why, but it seems
> that Steam is somehow interfering with VGL's function dispatching
> mechanism.  When I've seen such problems in the past with other
> applications, I was able to work around them by setting
> VGL_GLLIB=/usr/lib64/libGL.so.1 or VGL_GLLIB=/usr/lib/libGL.so.1, which
> forces VirtualGL to load the "real" OpenGL functions directly from the
> underlying OpenGL library instead of relying on the dynamic loader to
> pick those symbols from the next library in the search order.  That
> doesn't work with Steam, however.
> 
> I've spent nearly two full days' work looking at this, but I'm afraid
> that there isn't much else I can do without help from the community.
> With a closed-source application like Steam, it could easily take me 30
> or 40 more hours of hacking to determine why it isn't working with
> VirtualGL, and even if I can determine exactly what's causing the issue,
> sometimes issues like these still aren't solvable.  If someone else is
> willing to take the lead on this, then I'd be more than happy to liaise
> with them, but for me personally, I can't spare those hours from the
> General Fund to donate to this cause, so I'd need the work to be
> sponsored financially if I'm going to solve it without community help.
> 
> I want to support the gaming market as much as I can, but unfortunately,
> the reality is that my business model makes it difficult to do so.  I
> get paid generally by corporations or other organizations who are using
> VirtualGL internally or selling it as part of their product, and these
> customers are primarily focused on CAD and visualization applications.
> 
> 
> On 6/28/16 12:22 PM, Marco Marino wrote:
>> I'm able to play stream, but games nit working..  Please can you create
>> a steam account and try to play half life2 or dota?? They are free to
>> play games.
>> Thamk you
> 

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