running LibreELEC in KVM?

orclex · March 26, 2019 at 7:46 AM

I'd like to run LE for tests in a VM. Unfortunately the X server could not start and I found these erros in the log file:

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ERROR: failed to initialize egl 
ERROR: GLX Error: vInfo is NULL!

Does anybody got it working in KVM on linux? Using the video card Virtio LE hangs in a boot loop. All other video cards do not start X server (no GL).

Thanks

*LibreELEC 9.0.0*

**aptalca** · March 26, 2019 at 12:12 PM

For kvm, you need to pass through a physical gpu

If you just need a testing environment without a physical gpu, you can use the ova for vmware

orclex · March 26, 2019 at 2:32 PM

Perfect! Didn't know that there is an ova image. This is working for me....

...except shared data:

I enabled "Folder Sharing" in VM settings, added my host path /mnt/data and its name data.

SSH to the LE VM, I tried

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# mkdir /media/data
# mount -t vmhgfs .host:/mnt/data /media/data/
Error: cannot canonicalize mount point: No such file or directory
mount: mounting .host:/mnt/data on /media/data/ failed: No such file or directory

Any ideas?

Can I list VMware shared folders to see if it exports my share to the VM?

Thanks!

orclex · March 26, 2019 at 2:41 PM

Quote from orclex

Can I list VMware shared folders to see if it exports my share to the VM?

OK, vmware-hgfsclient does this and shows me "data", but I still cannot mount...

**vpeter** · March 26, 2019 at 2:46 PM

Try

Code

mkdir -p /media/data
vmhgfs-fuse .host:/mnt/data /media/data

orclex · March 27, 2019 at 12:18 PM

Thanks, mounting via fuse is working but I also needed the option allow_other to get access...