asked on OpenGL for Matrox G200 HP ProLiant
We are currently installing Enovia PLM on our servers and the Tech is asking me to install OpenGL. here's the issue, I setup the servers on a VM environment which incudes:
2 HP ProLiant DL380p Gen8 running ESXi 5.5
1 HP Smart Array 2040 SAN running all the VM's
3 Windows Server 2008 R2 x64 standard SP1
I have installed VMtools on all VM's
The ProLiant's have Matrox G200 video cards which can handle older OpenGL standards. But when I try to install the old Matrox video drivers on a VM, it doesn't detect it. The display driver which all the VM's are using is VMware SVGA 3D. Any idea's on how I would go about installing openGL on a VM?
2 HP ProLiant DL380p Gen8 running ESXi 5.5
1 HP Smart Array 2040 SAN running all the VM's
3 Windows Server 2008 R2 x64 standard SP1
I have installed VMtools on all VM's
The ProLiant's have Matrox G200 video cards which can handle older OpenGL standards. But when I try to install the old Matrox video drivers on a VM, it doesn't detect it. The display driver which all the VM's are using is VMware SVGA 3D. Any idea's on how I would go about installing openGL on a VM?
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The VMWare Video driver which VMware Tools provides you with should support OpenGL. In the VM's Settings make sure that you have enabled "Accelerate 3D graphics" (or something similar).
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Masq, i'm using Vmware. I'm pretty sure all the drivers have been loaded into the ESXi servers at the time of install.
ASKER
Rindi, I tried to find the Video Driver in VM Tools but couldn't find it. I see options for the NIC, Mouse, USB, SCSI, SVGA, Audio, Memory Control Driver, and everything has been installed.
What's under "SVGA"?
ASKER
nothing...the description says, "Driver to enhance the performance of your virtual video card"
Currently I don't know exactly what it looks like under ESXi, but the VM's of VMWare Player is similar. With the VM closed check the settings of the VM. There if you click on "Display" you can enable a checkbox for "Accelerate 3D graphics". I'm sure it will be similar for ESXi, if not the same..
After that when you boot the VM and if you have the tools installed like you said, the VMWare driver should support OpenGL and 3D.
After that when you boot the VM and if you have the tools installed like you said, the VMWare driver should support OpenGL and 3D.
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I do have the "Enable 3D support" checked for the VM, but that only came up because I chance the OS selection from Windows server 2008 x64 R2 to Windows 7 X64. So i'm not even sure if that made any change to OpendGL. Is there a way to check and see if OpenGL is now supported?
On the Desktop versions of VMWare you can then enable the Aero display of Windows 7 (select an Aero Theme), and you'll get all the translucent and Aero peek effects. It probably works the same for ESXi. If Aero Works, OpenGL works too.
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The program helped determine what OpenGL standard is supports by the VM.
Their "Additions" .iso or equivalent should include drivers for the virtual graphics hardware but you can also find the driver for the virtual manufacture of it.
Remember the default Microsoft driver won't support OpenGL.