Quick Poll: OpenGL-based Windows applications

[davidliu]

Hello All,

Here is your chance of affecting feature direction in future VMware Fusion releases! I am looking into possible OpenGL support for Windows guests in VMware Fusion, and am wondering if folks can kindly reply with your favorite OpenGL-based applications that you would like to run. For reference, here is a list of OpenGL based Windows applications: http://opengl.org/products/platform/C5/, but what I really wanted to hear is what are the most important, top 3 applications for you or your business, what are making you keep your physical PC or your Boot Camp partition

Note: this post is just one product manager's effort to collect some data on OpenGL; it should not be viewed as a commitment of any sort

Thank you.

David Liu

Product Manager

VMware

[miknyb]

Siemens NX6 now works, graphics are displayed correctly.

[Bsktcase]

OpenGL implementation is a must have feature if you wish to keep up with Parallels' offerings.

I have already switched products just because of this and will recommend others to do the same. I am an

occasional gamer and it just happened that two games would either run ok (Civ 4 - no movies, glitches) or

not at all (KOTOR II).

Parallels runs KOTOR II just fine with all the bells and whistles on.

Please make VMware Fusion the best application that you can. Thank you for this venue of communication.

Keep your level of customer support up. Parallels is a very good program but the company's level of

customer support is rotten (more than a week without a word about a license--upgrade issue.)

[CoIin]

I want to use Starry Night (listed here: http://www.opengl.org/products/platform/C5/P550/), which has some Windows only telescope drivers, hence needing to run Fusion to get Starry Night to work. Unfortunately it's fully dependent on OpenGL, and crashes during launch if OpenGL is not there.

[buildmonkey]

Chief Architect please. it currently works but so slow.

[andrei87]

Hi, I would like to be able to use Adobe CS4 in Windows VM's under VMWare. Certain features within this widely used product suite require OpenGL, eg see the system requirements for the web premium edition :-

The VM is very useful as a web designer may be working with an older version such as CS3 or even Macromedia MX 2004, and want to evaluate the new version without having to uninstall the old version - a VM is ideal for this. I have considered looking at other virtualisation products, but on the whole I prefer VMWare , apart from this limitation in graphics support.

I am sure there will be many web designers, multimedia developers, and graphics designers out there who would be very interested in using VMWare products - however without good graphics support they will be left out in the cold. I have seen posts of such professionals having problems trying to run such graphics intensive software in VMWare VM's, though clearly they are very keen to use VMWare. Thus good OpenGL (and other graphics) support can only add many new customers for VMWare.

[tallguy]

-Studio Messiah.

[deucejmp]

Please make VMware Fusion the best application that you can. Thank you for this venue of communication.

Keep your level of customer support up. Parallels is a very good program but the company's level of

customer support is rotten (more than a week without a word about a license--upgrade issue.)

How do you compare the overall performance of parallels virtual machine? The OpenGL issue aside; does VMware perform better for you?

[belisle]

1. Solidworks 2008

2. Fluent/Gambit (Ubuntu Linux)

3. Autocad 2009

Thanks!

[kb5psf]

That would be Starry Night. I just now figured out that fusion doesn't have opengl, googled this forum, and discovered it's not a bug, but a feature.

Parallel's supports it? I'm gonna have to return Fusion and get Parallels.

[emiliosic]

Regarding "Non-Windows" apps; I was actually encouraged today when I saw the new 2.1 beta and tried XP and then Ubuntu 9.04; with 3D graphics enabled in VM Fusion but Ubutnu could not enable OpenGL for desktop effects; so unfortunately, I still can't test basic UI functionality without OpenGL support on Linux.

[emiliosic]

The 2.1 beta has OpenGL support for Windows XP/Vista

[preston_D]

Planit Products Cabnetware and Cabinet Vision

Delcam Products including ArtCAM

I rep all of these so let me know if you need contact info for the developers.

Thanks,

Preston

[PedroCabral]

Garmin BaseCamp among others already stated

[CoIin]

Is it possible to get the 2.1 beta? With 2.04 I couldn't do OpenGL, but I could at least use DirectX 9. With the 2.05 update I'm now prevented from using DirectX, even though it was working very nicely.

[Bsktcase]

Thank you for having this thread open Mr.Liu.

There is a reason why I use Macs. I do so because I know that whatever it is I have to do, either for work or play, it will be there and be able to handle anything I throw at it without getting in my way. It gives me the freedom to do what I do without technology brick-walls or headaches. It just works.

A program like VMware should reflect that part of the Mac. It should give the user the freedom to run whatever it is thrown at it with minimum fuzz. That is to say, it should work to the fullest extent for all apps, not just a chosen few. It should support technologies like OpenGL and MSDirectX to the fullest. Empower the user experience.

Thank you for your time.

Rafael Figueroa

[dp_fusion]

I will second the Rhino products from McNeel in Seattle. It is a very powerful 3D modeling program for CAD professionals and like any CAD tool it can benefit greatly from the best most powerful video available. Secondarily, I'm not having a lot of luck with Microsoft Flight Simulator.

dp

[Dippyskoodlez]

Call of Duty

Medal of Honor

Doom 3

I believe these already work(To some extent, atleast.), but don't break my games, please!

[Woody44]

David,

The only PC app I use is IsoDraw (a PTC application) and they've just upgraded the app to use OpenGL in it's screen redraw. It's usable via Fusion, but the screen rendering is pretty shoddy now. Any support I can get from you to avoid having to boot up my Acer laptop would be really well received!

Cheers

Rob