RHLE 7.0 + VMWare Player 7

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I'm having a problem with VMware player 7 and Enterprise version 7.0. Gnome appears to be rendering in software and I'm not sure how to fix it.

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bl Newbie 15 points
1 January 2015 7:46 PM

Looking into it more I think it's the "gnome-shell" process that's making my cpu run at 100% - rendering in software?

$ glxinfo | grep render
direct rendering: Yes
OpenGL renderer string: Gallium 0.4 on llvmpipe (LLVM 3.3, 128 bits)
GL_NV_conditional_render, GL_NV_fog_distance, GL_NV_light_max_exponent,

james.radtke@siriusxm.com's picture Guru 6863 points
5 January 2015 1:18 AM

Hi Adrian - I have not run in to this specific issue, so I don't have specific advice (I use VMware Fusion on OS X). However, I think the Vmware Tools might be worth looking in to.

Which version of VMware Tools are you running? I thought I had noticed that the Virt Tools are now included (or part of EPEL, perhaps?). Anyhow - I would consider using the VMware included VMware Tools. Also - I believe there are "advanced settings" to change the rendering, or options to disable the 3rd Acceleration, etc...

MM Active Contributor 102 points
4 January 2015 8:05 PM

After years of working with VMware Player, Workstation, and Oracle's VirtualBox, I would recommend VirtualBox. I am currently running multiple RHEL 7 servers in virtualbox with a gui for testing with no problem. VMware Player was always buggy and unreliable.

bl Newbie 15 points
5 January 2015 9:24 PM

Hi,

I did find one solution and that was to move away from gnome and install kde. Cpu has returned to normal now. From reading up on several red hat docs it appears that gnome and gnome Classic in 7 + VMware only supports software renderering of the desktop. No expert though - just starting out with 7.

Thanks for the helpful replies.

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