OVA on VMWare Workstation 17 Pro

As - FYI:

I have just done an inital run test on VMware ESXi, 7.0.3, 22348816 of the 11.0.6 OVA with the following output and "working" - I did not play any media.

Power Status Powered On
Guest OS Linux 6.1.74 LibreELEC (official): 11.0.6 LibreELEC 11.0 16216c3214a725e2b418b685504350a584baf12f
VMware Tools Running, version:2147483647 (Guest Managed)
DNS Name LibreELEC
IP Addresses xx.xx.xx.xx
Encryption Not encrypted

CPU 1 CPU(s), 2160 MHz used
Memory 1 GB, 1 GB memory active
Hard disk 1 4 GB | Thin Provision xxx-Datastore001
Network adapter 1 net1 (connected) | xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
Compatibility Workstation 12 and later (VM version 12)

LibreELEC:~ # pastekodi
https://paste.libreelec.tv/prompt-quetzal.log

To update further, the trick of adding these 3 lines:

mks.enableDX12Renderer = "FALSE"
mks.enableDX11Renderer = "FALSE"
mks.enableGLRenderer = "TRUE"

only works with my nVidia 710 cards and not my ATI Radeon 5450 video cards. I had to put the nVidia card back in my 17.5 system and both OVAs started working. With the ATI card I get an error about a bad value with the mks.enableGLRenderer = "TRUE" statement. The good news is that I have more of the nVidia cards laying around and they are still available for purchase.

I did some further reading and VM Workstation 17.5 wants video cards which support DIVX 11.1 and mine are older and limited to 11.0. I suspect that may be why others are working, depending upon the video cards and how new they might be.

Jeff

The DXxxRenderers config probably has no effect as DX display drivers are a Windows thing. Enabling GL should be be the only config item to have impact, though I'm wondering if that truly means GL (only)? as GBM images are using GLES not GL (as shown by logs that heitbaum shared).

Quote from chewitt

The DXxxRenderers config probably has no effect as DX display drivers are a Windows thing. Enabling GL should be be the only config item to have impact, though I'm wondering if that truly means GL (only)? as GBM images are using GLES not GL (as shown by logs that heitbaum shared).

Yeah, you are correct. Only mks.enableGLRenderer = "TRUE" is needed. Interesting that it doesn't work with my ATI card only the nVidia card. At least I found a solution.

Jeff

So interestingly enough I upgraded VMWorkstation to 17.5 on my other server and Kodi running under Windows 10 on a Guest VM stopped working due to display driver issues. I ended up solving this the same way I did for the LibeElec OVAs. I had to do 3 things.

First, change the VM hardware compatibility for the Windows 10 Guest running Kodi to VM Workstation version 12.0. Second replace the ATI video card with the nVidia video card and third add the same mks.enableGLRenderer = "TRUE" configuration line to the VM config file.

Jeff