Sorry. Forgot to mention. I'm using VGL 2.6.5 and hoping to use TurboVNC 2.2.6
On Thursday, May 6, 2021 at 12:56:26 PM UTC-4 southern.cross wrote: > Thanks for the response. > > I've tried on two different machines: > (1) Windows 10 Pro 20H2 Build 19042.928, with WSL2 Ubuntu 20.04. > (2) Windows 10 Home insider program Build 21370.co_release.210424-1611, > insider Developer program Nvidia Driver 470.25 (the combination of these > two give GPU pass through abilities), with WSL2 Ubuntu 20.04. > > They both have the same behavior where /etc/opt/VirtualGL/vgl_xauth_key is > never generated. > > I'm hoping to get this to work as our team is looking to standardize on > VGL for our development process. Each team member has a different computer > setup (some linux, some Mac, some Windows/WSL2, some local, some remote). > Hopefully we can get it working on WSL2... > > Thanks again. > > On Thursday, May 6, 2021 at 12:17:35 PM UTC-4 DRC wrote: > >> Using WSL as a VirtualGL server platform isn't officially supported, >> because it doesn't make sense in production VirtualGL environments to use a >> Windows workstation as a virtual Linux server. However, there is no >> technical reason why it shouldn't work. >> >> Issue #65 (the necessity to use LightDM on Ubuntu 16.04 and later) was >> worked around in VirtualGL 2.6.2, so that issue is no longer relevant in >> the latest releases of VirtualGL. >> >> I need to reproduce the issue before we can proceed, so please specify >> the version of Ubuntu you are using. Also, please make sure you are using >> the latest release of VirtualGL. >> >> On 5/6/21 11:02 AM, southern.cross wrote: >> >> Has anyone had success in getting VGL to work on any version of WSL2 >> Ubuntu? >> >> The VGL installation is not making /etc/opt/VirtualGL/vgl_xauth_key >> >> The following told me to use lightdm: >> https://github.com/VirtualGL/virtualgl/issues/65 >> >> I successfully completed: >> >> sudo systemctl disable gdm3 >> sudo apt install lightdm >> >> But not, >> sudo systemctl enable lightdm >> >> I get: >> >> root@SEDACS29L:~# systemctl enable lightdm >> Synchronizing state of lightdm.service with SysV service script with >> /lib/systemd/systemd-sysv-install. >> Executing: /lib/systemd/systemd-sysv-install enable lightdm >> The unit files have no installation config (WantedBy=, RequiredBy=, Also=, >> Alias= settings in the [Install] section, and DefaultInstance= for >> template >> units). This means they are not meant to be enabled using systemctl. >> >> Possible reasons for having this kind of units are: >> • A unit may be statically enabled by being symlinked from another unit's >> .wants/ or .requires/ directory. >> • A unit's purpose may be to act as a helper for some other unit which has >> a requirement dependency on it. >> • A unit may be started when needed via activation (socket, path, timer, >> D-Bus, udev, scripted systemctl call, ...). >> • In case of template units, the unit is meant to be enabled with some >> instance name specified. >> >> If I proceed and try to run, >> >> /opt/VirtualGL/bin/vglserver_config -config -s >> >> even after a wsl --shutdown and relaunch I cannot get >> /etc/opt/VirtualGL/vgl_xauth_key to be created. >> >> Google searches have not shown any results of VGL being used with WLS2 >> Ubuntu... Is this not a supported use case? >> >> Thanks in advance. >> >> -- >> 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/34f961d5-dcad-4a07-9624-1c36512faf88n%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/virtualgl-users/34f961d5-dcad-4a07-9624-1c36512faf88n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> >> -- 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/cf45e72f-62e7-4f30-8532-5ba48609d571n%40googlegroups.com.
