[Paraview] how to run paraview inside a vncserver?

[Qinghuai Gao]

Theodore:

The issue is that X server with VNC doesn't have GLX support. VirtualGL
helps to by-pass this issue and sends the OpenGL calls to the hardware.

Qinghuai

> We are running a computer configuration where multiple engineers share
> a server by using vncserver instances. The vncviewer runs on our
> desktops. I installed ParaView but when we are trying to start it
> inside a vncserver instance, we get the error:
>
> Xlib: extension “GLX” missing on display “:2.0”
>
> …
>
> vtkXOpenGLRenderWindow (0x865cac8): Could not find a decent visual
>
> …
>
> vtkXOpenGLRenderWindow (0x865cac8): GLX not found. Aborting.
>
> So how does one resolve this particular issue? We are running Centos 4
> on a Intel Core 2 Duo.
>
> Theo
>
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