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.
>>
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