[Chimera-users] Chimera in Virtual machine

[Eric Pettersen]

Well, we are hardly experts on running Chimera in a VM.  Googling around, it seems that downgrading your VirtualBox "guest additions" may solve the problem, as per:

OpenGL, Ubuntu in a VirtualBox | SGrottel

--Eric

                        Eric Pettersen
                        UCSF Computer Graphics Lab
                        http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu

On Jun 17, 2015, at 1:37 PM, Milo Westler <milo at nmrfam.wisc.edu> wrote:

> Well I thought I had this figured out, but then my VM broke and I can't get chimera to run in my VM again.  
> 
> I am running Vritualbox with a guest system of ubuntu-mate 15.04. I want to be able to use chimera in the VM for a workshop that we are presenting. I have installed the 64 bit version for linux. I get:
> 
> ~> chimera
> pci id for fd 4: 80ee:beef, driver (null)
> libGL error: core dri or dri2 extension not found
> libGL error: failed to load driver: vboxvideo
> libGL error: unable to load driver: swrast_dri.so
> libGL error: failed to load driver: swrast
> X Error of failed request:  BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation)
>   Major opcode of failed request:  154 (GLX)
>   Minor opcode of failed request:  3 (X_GLXCreateContext)
>   Value in failed request:  0x0
>   Serial number of failed request:  751
>   Current serial number in output stream:  752
> ~>
> 
> And when I run: 
> /opt/UCSF/Chimera64-1.10.1/share> python __main__.py
> Chimera is misconfigured.  Please reinstall chimera.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
>  
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