[vbox-dev] Enabling 3D acceleration with VBoxOGL and VBoxECL

[Michael Thayer]

Hello Larry,

Sorry for the delay, I was away.  Have you got any further here, or 
should I take a look?  (I will be away for most of this week too, but 
will try to find time as soon as possible.)

Regards
Michael

22.02.2017 07:43, Larry Finger wrote:
> On 02/19/2017 01:39 PM, Michael Thayer wrote:
>> Don't know if this is confusing, but the command returns true or
>> false, as in
>> "if /usr/bin/VBoxClient --check3d; then" in a shell script.  In that case
>> VBoxOGL.so and VBoxEGL.so should be set up to replace the default Mesa
>> libOGL.so.* and libEGL.so.*.  Our installer uses ld.so.conf.d for this.
>
> Michael,
>
> I have made considerable progress, but I'm stuck. The vboxadd script is
> creating the links correctly; however, 3D acceleration is not working.
>
> One thing that bothers me is that once ldconfig is run, there are two
> additional links created. The contents of
> /var/lib/VBoxGuestAdditions/lib is as follows:
>
> finger at linux-utfd:~> ls -l /var/lib/VBoxGuestAdditions/lib/
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 34 Feb 22 00:28 libEGL.so.1 ->
> /opt/VBoxGuestAdditions/VBoxEGL.so
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 34 Feb 22 00:28 libGL.so.1 ->
> /opt/VBoxGuestAdditions/VBoxOGL.so
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Feb 22 00:28 VBoxEGL.so -> libEGL.so.1
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Feb 22 00:28 VBoxOGL.so.1 -> libGL.so.1
>
> I think those last two are messing up the library loading. Any ideas on
> what might be wrong?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Larry
>
>
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