12/23/2023 0 Comments Video drivers for ubuntu 12.10![]() ![]() Thanks to the forums and to the fellow users and some Parallels engineers who certainly know a lot, and whose comments and threads have indirectly helped me avoid unwittingly destroy my perfectly-working Ubuntu distro. Also, it seemed to me that the OSX Mountain Lion graphics driver is probably the only driver interacting directly with the GPU, and the Ubuntu driver may only have a virtual and indirect connection through the Mountain Lion driver, but perhaps that is not correct or is irrelevant.ĭocumented Parallels 8 support for Ubuntu is pretty thin, and seems non-existent when discussing virtualized graphics card drivers within Ubuntu, but perhaps I overlooked it so would be happy to read up on it if available. The few people who've tried it and then wrote how they did it (which includes blacklisting some drivers, and removing others) have broken their installs. I read enough to learn that upgrading hardware drivers for Ubuntu as guest on Mountain Lion it is not easy - or at least not identical - to updating graphics drivers on a dedicated install of Ubuntu. As the feature can be switched off in a click or two there’s not need to avoid Ubuntu altogether. Although OpenGL support appears to be years old, in fairness to Parallels, they don't focus on Linux guest OS, and they can't know what machine the Ubuntu installs will go on, so I can see why a widely functional "lowest common denominator" GPU driver might be used for virtualization. To install the driver type as the root user: sh. Not everyone will appreciate one of Ubuntu 12.10’s more controversial new features that of Amazon product suggestions appearing in the Dash as you search for apps. I mention this because I read a user's comment on stack-exchange that they thought Parallels 8 was entirely unable to virtualize GPU acceleration. Also, in case the topic of GPU acceleration on guest Linux OS is interesting to other OpenGL fans, I can verify there is some ancient (five or six years old, it seems) OpenGL functionality in Ubuntu even as a guest OS. Here's what I've tried: I have Ubuntu 12.04 working fine as guest OS (alongside Windows 8) on a Mountain Lion iMac with NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680MX. Still, use this with care (quote from the installer download page):Īttempting to "force" package upgrades may break your OS installation, requiring a re-install or other time-intensive remedies (requiring a high level of expertise).Does anyone know how to get OpenGL 4.x working on the Ubuntu 12.04 that ships with Parallels 8? I'll post a new article when this is fixed Update: these issues seem fixed now and after an update, everything works as expected on my Ubuntu 12.10 64bit machine. Unfortunately, this means I can't fully test the Intel Linux Graphics Installer for now so I can't tell you if everything works properly after the driver upgrade so, especially if you're on 64bit, you should wait and not install this yet. In my test, I was unable to use the Intel Linux Graphics Installer tool to upgrade the Intel graphics drivers under Ubuntu 12.10 64bit due to some issues with multiarch dependencies and it seems this affects other users too (this shouldn't occur on 32bit, however, I was unable to test in on 32bit since this doesn't work in VirtualBox).
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