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I spent my last 5 years there as the lead architect on virtualization technology, prototyping and deploying virtual machines running on data center high performance graphics workstation blades. For your information, I recently took early retirement from HP as an IT Solution Architect. Wow, that certainly is a presumptuous and arrogant response. I actually have to have some very specific skills developed. If I state I'm an astronaut, it doesn't make me one. You're one of the lucky ones that their application works.Īm I being too simplistic to think that the solution is to get VB to return standard OpenGL responses to standard OpenGL queries (e.g. On the other hand you have a perfectly good, acceptable solution, which I pointed to you from the 1st post stick with Sketchup 2016. I have no clue when this will happen or if it will happen at all. You only option is to pretty much wait for improved graphics support. Applications that have high requirements on the GPU (drawing, 3D, games, video) are expected to not work as good as on the real hardware, if they work at all. They use after all a virtual graphics card, not your host's real graphics card. Virtual machines will never be as powerful as the host, especially on the video side. Programs like these tend to push the physical hardware to their limit, hence the strict requirements. the version number)?That would be correct.
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TimIT wrote:Am I being too simplistic to think that the solution is to get VB to return standard OpenGL responses to standard OpenGL queries (e.g. the version number)? TimIT Posts: 5 Joined: 9. Is there someone from VB who can look more deeply into this issue? Am I being too simplistic to think that the solution is to get VB to return standard OpenGL responses to standard OpenGL queries (e.g. They have had multiple requests to port to Linux, but so far they claim there isn't the market for it. We're clearly not going to get any help from Trimble. However, isn't the goal to make it work? If not, what's the point in having a virtualization product if it's only going to work on "low end" applications? I know that VB states graphics acceleration is "experimental". So, it seems that Virtual Box should be trying to make their virtualization more "transparent" so applications don't know the difference and will run anyway. In other words, they are writing apps that run on "real" OS's. Trimble is clear about their non-support for virtualized environments. Virtualized environments are not supported for SU 2017 (Mac or Win). VMware Workstation, for example, returns an OpenGL version of 3.0 even though the host machine's graphics card supports OpenGL 4.4. Some virtualized environments report their own unique OpenGL versions/strings. SU 2017 requires a graphics card that supports OpenGL 3.0 or greater. Here is the latest response from Trimble: