Here’s my “tip of the day” for running OpenGL Apps on a Linux \/ Ubuntu guest in VMWare Fusion. \u00a0The problem is that while running VMWare Fusion on OSX, your guest Ubuntu system doesn’t have 3D acceleration. \u00a0Bummer! \u00a0I really like doing my game-dev under linux .. so after a bit of searching I found this neat trick:<\/p>\n
1. Open a Terminal in OSX (host OS)<\/p>\n
2.\u00a0ssh -Y ip.address.of.guest.OS
\n(You can find out the IP address of your guest OS via ifconfig.)<\/p>\n
3. run the game you are working on\u00a0<\/p>\n
4. OSX pops up a window with your game running at full speed!<\/p>\n
Via that SSH session I can run my games under linux, but the OpenGL stuff is forwarded to my OSX host, which renders it at full speed. \u00a0This is called X11 forwarding, which I had heard of before, but I didn’t know it included OpenGL \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
I’d love it if Fusion included 3D acceleration of linux-based Guest OSs, but in the meantime, this will get me by. \u00a0One thing to note, this isn’t perfect. \u00a0I tried running tux racer, and although it seemed to run at full speed, the view wasn’t centered and so I only saw the top left 25% of the game.<\/p>\n
-Phil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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