Although not officially supported, I just tried to run Rhino 6 on VMware 15 and surprise, surprise, it seems to work very well. Even GPU rendering with Raytraced works without any moanings or complaints (using a GTX 980Ti).
Better support for NVMe disks enables me working with big files (CT-scans) without spending the workday waiting for file loading and saving.
I had this on my wishlist for long, not primarily for designing with Rhino, but for Grasshopper development with Visual Studio including GPU programming, and now it seems that it just worx.
Just wanted to let you all know. I have tested on the Workstation Pro version, but havenāt tried the free VMware Player yet (Iām myself on the 12.5 version still, but it seem like itās time to move on to v15).
It would be nice to be able to code against the GPU directly from VMware, but it seems like that is a bit complex, if itās possible at all.
I saw in some video (lost the link) that a certain āJessieā at Microsoft actually got through to the GPU on Windows Subsystem for Linux, but it was a lot of tweaking. It seems like weāre still in the dark ages with VMs.
This is indeed good news! I will test on a Linux host with VMware.
I did manage to get Rhino 5 working on Linux on top of the Wine layer, I think 32bit onlyā¦ it was working well for the most part, with the occasional crash. Rhino 6 no such luck.
I had it running on a Linux host vm using VirtualBox but it was too buggy and slowā¦ unusable.
Maybe this will finally solve my long standing dream of a Linux versionā¦ sort of.
Also correct. VirtualBox does only OpenGL 2.1 or so, which is not high enough for Rhino.
You are using Raytraced on the GTX (click on the Raytraced name in the HUD, it should show the render device name as well) still I guess - if so then Raytraced is āusing the metalā (:
added: capture of render device info in HUD after clicking on Raytraced name:
Aww, no GTX. I suppose the Tools > Options > Cycles | CUDA page looks empty. It is up to VMWare to get their driver support ready for CUDA usage.
And your i7 3930 is 8 logical core - by default Raytraced uses max(1, (NUM_CORES - 2)) threads - the x6in the hud in your case. In my HUD I have x2 because I have a meager 4-core Mac.
Delivering on my promise, I did test the latest Rhino trial on VMware15 Player on a Debian 9.6 host and Windows 10 guest.
The test wasnāt thorough but it runs almost like on a physical Windows machine.
(Beware if you have a Nvidia Optimus system you have to go through some loops and make sure Nvidia graphics are used when running the VM on a Linux host, otherwise forget it.)
Below, a screen capture of the OpenGL settings used with the VM.
Now, you should know that antialiasing means trouble! Donāt use it!
And you will run into some surprises working in rendered view, applying materials and other stuff related to rendering.
So far, for basic stuff, especially if you donāt leave the modelling environment too much, it seems reliable. But PLEASE!!! McNeel, think of your Linux users!!! I beg you!!!Or else weāll all have to settle for FreeCAD
Hi, thanks I tried it today and it works with a Dell Precision and kUbuntu 20.04 guest and Windows 10 host on vmware player 15
How can I make sure I am using the Nvidia graphics card in the guest ? I donāt see any options related or graphics card in the wmware player settings.
If you can use it in a Windows guest and a Linux host?!, you probably already have installed Nvidia proprietary drivers. Recent Nvidia drivers for Linux already account for Optimus technology which switches between on-board and discrete graphics. Before you had to install Bumblebee and go through some hoops or youād get black viewports (I did).
I guess the thing with going against the tide is that it always depends ā¦
Thanks. It does run very nicely, the only problem I have had for now is that the points are not displayed, they exist but I canāt see them in the viewport. Do you have the same problem ?
