3D support for X11 guests

tcrews wrote: post #2

Never worked well and we turn it off in our Vagrant boxes. If you need 3D support in a VM on your workstation, use VMware Workstation 12... it's awesome (but Vagrant support sucks).

For the Vagrant VMWare support, are you using the official (paid) Vagrant provider or something else? I've been interested in hearing about experiences of using it.

Re: 3D support for X11 guests

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Post by hamburglar » Sun, Apr 09, 2017, 2:57 AM UTC

I don't understand how this is a "dilemma." It's like saying, "on one hand, I really need to mow my lawn. On the other hand, I really don't want to. It's a real dilemma!"

Re: 3D support for X11 guests

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Post by dreamlayers » Sun, Apr 09, 2017, 3:23 AM UTC

hamburglar wrote: post #5

I don't understand how this is a "dilemma." It's like saying, "on one hand, I really need to mow my lawn. On the other hand, I really don't want to . It's a real dilemma!"

Trolling people in an attempt to get their lawn mowed by others.

Re: 3D support for X11 guests

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Post by bhouston » Sun, Apr 09, 2017, 3:37 AM UTC

Switch from vb to lxc/docker and you get great GPU driver support, even CUDA.

Re: 3D support for X11 guests

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Post by bhouston » Sun, Apr 09, 2017, 3:38 AM UTC

tcrews wrote: post #2

Never worked well and we turn it off in our Vagrant boxes. If you need 3D support in a VM on your workstation, use VMware Workstation 12... it's awesome (but Vagrant support sucks).

We switched to lxc for vagrant, it is a amazing both for GPU support, speed of startup, and low memory usage. Would never go back to running full VMs via VB or VMware.

You could wait years for some 3D support in VB, or you could just side step the problem and go with lxc.

Re: 3D support for X11 guests

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Post by hedora » Sun, Apr 09, 2017, 3:42 AM UTC

Without 3d support, basically no-one can use virtualbox, so is the dilemma whether to kill the project or not?

(This is a serious question--what can possibly be more important to average virtualbox users than having a working desktop environment? Virtualbox has always occupied the desktop virtualization niche, so I'm trying to figure out what has changed...)

Re: 3D support for X11 guests

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Post by emeraldd » Sun, Apr 09, 2017, 3:44 AM UTC

hedora wrote: post #9

Without 3d support, basically no-one can use virtualbox, so is the dilemma whether to kill the project or not? (This is a serious question--what can possibly be more important to average virtualbox users than having a working desktop environment? Virtualbox has always occupied the desktop virtualization niche, so I'm trying to figure out what has changed...)

I use Virtualbox daily without ever using a desktop environment in the VM. It's very useful in headless form for development machines when working locally.