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ttgr

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Registered: 2012-01-08

Posts: 3

3D Acceleration problems in VMWare with Arch guest

I have Arch installed as guest in a VM, and everything works flawlessly except 3D Acceleration.
It kinda works, but i cannot figure out exactly the problem. Glxgears run flawlessly.
When running some other 3D accelerated applications though i get some kind of crash with dmesg showing:

[...] [vmwgfx:vm_cmdbuf_work_func] *ERROR* Command buffer error.

For example my renderer gives back: OpenGL error: out of memory
And if i have compton enabled in my xprofile, when starting X session screen blacks out with only the cursor showing
and when inspecting the dmesg after that, the above entry is shown multiple times.

I have:

VMWare Workstation Pro 12.1.0
Fresh installed Arch installation.
Latest version of open-vm-tools.
Git versions of mesa, mesa-libgl, vmwgfx and libdrm.

If i had to bet, i think i would say that the problem resides in the vmwgfx module.
I am not a kernel dev so i cannot be sure. I am willing to find and fix the problem but i have absolutely no kernel development experience,
so guidance will be needed.

Any ideas?

ewaller

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From: Pasadena, CA

Registered: 2009-07-13

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Re: 3D Acceleration problems in VMWare with Arch guest

A shot in the dark, but have you tried increasing the video memory in the VM controls?

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ttgr

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Registered: 2012-01-08

Posts: 3

Re: 3D Acceleration problems in VMWare with Arch guest

Yep, i tried mading it from 128M to 1G. Nothing. And i really don't think a compton instance can eat up that much memory.