Drivers for VMware virtual graphics Drivers The Xorg graphics driver for the VMware virtual graphics- and mouse devices consist of. xf86-video-vmware - The video driver. Driver binary is vmwaredrv.so. The version 12.0 contains support for accelerated OpenGL.
The developers of the Mesa 3D Graphics Library are preparing to launch a new maintenance update to the current Mesa 17.2 stable series, which will bring more improvements to supported drivers. Docker - Mesa 3D OpenGL Software Rendering (Gallium) - LLVMpipe, and OpenSWR Drivers About Minimal Docker container bundled with the Mesa 3D Gallium Drivers: LLVMpipe & OpenSWR, enabling OpenGL support inside a Docker container without the need for a GPU. Compiling Mesa for Mac OS X 10.8 for an unsupported GPU. OpenGL is deeply integrated into MacOS X, hence it's virtually impossible to upgrade or change the OpenGL driver without an actual OS upgrade. Technically it's possible to compile the Mesa software renderer, but its performance is not very great; also there's no NSOpenGLView.
xf86-input-vmmouse - The mouse driver. Driver binaries are vmmousedrv.so and vmmousedetect. The kernel video driver - vmwgfx. This currently resides in kernel 3.2.0 and higher. 3D support Don't miss! Maintainer VMware currently maintain these drivers. The maintainer email is.
Patches touching the driver should have an Acked-by: or Signed-off-by: from a maintainer, and new releases are cut by a maintainer only. Please send patches and release requests to the xorg-devel mailing list with a CC to the maintainer email. License MIT-style. News. 2012-02-10 Zack Rusin has pushed a patch to mesa master which makes accelerated OpenVG run on vmwgfx EGL, in addition to the OpenGL and OpenGL-ES APIs (OpenVG requires the eglgallium EGL driver, not the egldri2 EGL driver).
This patch will be cherry-picked for mesa 8.0, but OpenVG and OpenGL-ES on vmwgfx is still experimental and not officialy supported. 2012-02-10 The kernel driver version 2.4.0 now contains support for fake page-flipping. This is to enable support for the Wayland demo compositor to run on vmwgfx EGL on the drm platform. I'ts called 'fake' because currently it's implemented as a blit operation, and we don't yet support sync-to-vblank. The fake page-flipping support will probably enter linux 3.4.0, but anyone eager to try out can use the standalone vmwgfx kernel driver. 2012-02-07 Our enhanced drivers with RandR12+ and 3D support are now enabled by default in ubuntu 12.04 daily build isos. 2012-01-24 VMware Workstation 8.0.2 and VMware Player 4.0.2 have been released.
These releases contain correctness- and performance fixes for Linux 3D. 2012-01-13 An alpha version of a 3D / KMS / RandR12 - capable xf86-video-vmware is due to be released in the next few days Refer to our page for additional information. 2012-01-11 xf86-video-vmware 11.1.0 was released. This is a stable release.