On 1/1/18 5:47 PM, zzzhhh wrote: > Suppose the remote ubuntu does not have GLX installed. Can I still use > virtualgl? If I can, what is the command line? Is it still "vglconnect > my_user_name"? Thanks.
"does not have GLX installed" is ambiguous. If you mean: "Can I use VirtualGL with a 2D X server/X proxy that does not have a GLX extension?" Then yes, that is one of the fundamental purposes of VirtualGL. Please refer to the documentation and the articles on VirtualGL.org for more information about what the "2D X server" is, if you don't already know. If you mean: "Can I use VirtualGL with a 3D X server that does not have a GLX extension?" Then no, although we have an active feature request for this: https://github.com/VirtualGL/virtualgl/issues/10. The proposed feature would interpose GLX calls and convert them into EGL calls, which would eliminate the need for the 3D X server altogether, but this feature would be extremely difficult and disruptive to implement without multi-view Pbuffers, which don't currently exist in popular EGL implementations. If you mean: "Can I use VirtualGL with a server that does not have OpenGL installed?" Absolutely not. The purpose of VirtualGL is to perform server-side OpenGL rendering with GPU acceleration and stream the rendered 3D images over the network. So you can definitely use it with *client* machines that lack OpenGL, but not *server* machines that lack OpenGL. vglconnect (which enables the VGL Transport) is largely a legacy feature meant to be used in conjunction with remote X (which is itself largely a legacy feature.) In almost all cases, new users should be using TurboVNC instead. DRC -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VirtualGL User Discussion/Support" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/virtualgl-users/5b8fc668-01da-20d5-ad42-08b7371d15de%40virtualgl.org. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
