I wanted to try the new vmwgfx stuff, but...

[dafttitan]

Thank you, I activated 3d in vm properties and it looks good now

[   160.941] (II) vmware(0): [DRI2] Setup complete
[   160.941] (II) vmware(0): [DRI2]   DRI driver: vmwgfx
[   160.941] (--) vmware(0): Render acceleration is enabled.
[   160.941] (==) vmware(0): Rendercheck mode is disabled.
[   160.941] (--) vmware(0): Direct rendering (3D) is enabled.
[   160.941] (==) vmware(0): Direct presents are disabled.
[   160.941] (==) vmware(0): Hardware only presents are disabled.
[   160.941] (==) vmware(0): Backing store disabled
[   160.941] (==) vmware(0): Silken mouse enabled
[   160.942] (II) vmware(0): RandR 1.2 enabled, ignore the following RandR disabled message.
[   160.944] (==) vmware(0): DPMS enabled

[dafttitan]

I activated 3d in vm properties, and I think it looks good now thanks

from xorg log:

[   160.941] (II) vmware(0): [DRI2]   DRI driver: vmwgfx
[   160.941] (--) vmware(0): Render acceleration is enabled.
[   160.941] (==) vmware(0): Rendercheck mode is disabled.
[   160.941] (--) vmware(0): Direct rendering (3D) is enabled.
[   160.941] (==) vmware(0): Direct presents are disabled.
[   160.941] (==) vmware(0): Hardware only presents are disabled.
[   160.941] (==) vmware(0): Backing store disabled
[   160.941] (==) vmware(0): Silken mouse enabled
[   160.942] (II) vmware(0): RandR 1.2 enabled, ignore the following RandR disabled message.
[   160.944] (==) vmware(0): DPMS enabled
[   162.172] (II) vmware(0): Setting screen physical size to 338 x 203

I am just a bit scared by glxinfo showing

OpenGL render string: Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe

Shouldn't it be "Gallium 0.4 on SVGA3D"?

[ChrisXY]

I am just a bit scared by glxinfo showing

OpenGL render string: Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe

Shouldn't it be "Gallium 0.4 on SVGA3D"?

No, but something similar. llvmpipe is not good.

LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose glxinfo | grep render

?

[dafttitan]

LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose glxinfo | grep render
libGL: OpenDriver: trying /usr/lib64/dri/tls/vmwgfr_dri.so
libGL: OpenDriver: trying /usr/lib64/dri/vmwgfr_dri.so
vmwgfx drm version failure.
vmwgfx drm version version is 2.3.0  and this driver can only work with version 1.0.x trough 1.x.x.
libGl error: failed to create dri screen
...
direct rending: Yes
OpenGL render string: Gallium 0.4 llvmpipe

looks bad :/

[dafttitan]

I went trough all the steps again and it now show:

OpenGL render string: Gallium 0.4 on SVGA3D;build: RELEASE

I think it is better I am going to emerge gnome3 and see how it goes..