I sort of have the 2D rendering working between two linux systems using VGL. The application runs on a large server which is at run level 3, so there is no active X server running. Using vglconnect to the server and then vglrun -d localhost:10.0 <app> I get all the 2D images just fine, but no 3D renderings. This makes some sense because the server isn't running an X server at all. But it does have V100 GPU's, so it could do 3D rendering.
I have a second, smaller server which does run at level 5 and also has good graphics cards. I don't have local access to it. So I'm wondering if it makes sense at all (probably not, but I'm asking) if it's possible to use the X server on a different system than the application and send the rendered results to a 3rd system. This is similar to the figure under section 9.2 of the user's guide, except that the GPU driver and 3D X server would be on the X proxy host. Alternatively, is there a way to set up a virtual X server which uses the local GPU, but does not connect to anything else except VGL requests? How I got here: I attempted to put the large server up to run level 5, and it hosed the system so no one could log into it. Power cycle was the only recourse. It's designed for our network to live at run level 3, so that's where it stays. I really don't understand all the details of X, VGL or ssh tunneling so my assumption is that this is not simple. It would be great if there is a way to take advantage of the hardware for graphics as well as for the compute power. Thanks. -- 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 virtualgl-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/virtualgl-users/9379ea6a-924f-4726-ab89-b6f2dd963cbb%40googlegroups.com.
