[vbox-dev] Specific 3D support in the future

[Alexey Eremenko]

On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 9:37 AM, Jonas Mellin <jonas.mellin at his.se> wrote:
> I tried to use OGRE (http://www.ogre3d.org/) in VirtualBox since you
> claim to support 3d features and I wanted to try out this combination
> for a research demonstrator project. I received the following exception:
>
> OGRE EXCEPTION(3:RenderingAPIException): No GLX FBConfig support on your
> display in GLXGLSupport::GLXGLSupport at
> /home/student/ogre/RenderSystems/GL/src/GLX/OgreGLXGLSupport.cpp (line 787)
>
> Although I am unsure of that you can interpret this, my question is if
> a) this is a bug?
> b) if it is not a bug, then do you plan to support this "GLX FBConfig"
> in the future?
>
> Essentially, I want to use Gazebo (a robot environment 3D simulator
> based on OGRE) in a dynamic deployment profile of the demonstrator we
> are constructing. The potential performance penalty of using it on top
> of VirtualBox may be prohibitive, but I am currently investigating
> possibilities.
>

Please upload VBox.log so we can see details of your configuration.

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-Alexey Eromenko "Technologov"