[Live-demo] OSGeo-Live 4.5 - OSGEarth

[Brian Hamlin]

On Feb 27, 2011, at 8:58 PM, Cameron Shorter wrote:

> On 28/02/11 14:29, Hamish wrote:
>> Cameron wrote:
>>> It might be the case that OSGEarth doesn't work without
>>> OpenGL support. If that is the case, is it possible to fail
>>> gracefully? Eg: In a wrapper bash script test for the
>>> existence of OpenGL. If it doesn't exist, present up popup
>>> alert stating "This computer seems to be missing OpenGL
>>> support is required to fully make use of OGLEarth. Elements
>>> of this program will not work as expected."
>>
>> Virtual Machines + OpenGL are a know problem (bug) industry wide. 
>> AFAIK
>> we've done all we can and are installing everything needed, and if the
>> ISO is burnt onto a physical DVD or USB stick and booted from that 
>> then
>> everything works correctly.
>>
>> not much we can do about it. hopefully a newer version of VirtualBox 
>> or
>> whatever makes this better.
>>
>>
>> Hamish
>>
>
> I expect that a significant proportion of our users will test 
> OSGeo-Live from a Virtual Machine. (I guess 20% to 30%). Maybe we 
> should test to see if the application is being run inside a VM, and 
> provide a popup warning if so. Is it possible to test if you are 
> running in a VM?
>

Here in the Bay Area, next to Silicon Valley, I would expect that 
number to be closer to 100%

Is it up to the LiveDVD to handle the Virtual Machine case?

   -Brian

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