Will you be able to run Rhino 8 in a virtual machine? (W10 guest on KVM/QEMU with GPU passthrough)
Hardware requirement says it’s not supported:
But that doesn’t necessarily means it can run in a VM using RDP, it might just mean that I cannot expect to get support from Rhino if I get problems?
Is Rhino 8 actively checking if it runs with RDP/on a virtualized PC when starting up and block running the program?
There shouldn’t be any technical reasons why it should not work.
It’s unsupported so it’s unsupported. You’re on your own. It’s not going to be a great experience due to poor OpenGl support at both the VM and RDP level, like dear God has someone dared you to run Rhino in the worst way possible?
My junior associate works from home entire days sometimes via Parsec, that seems to work fine.
I believe OpenGL works fine on VM and RDP if you have have GPU passthrough to the guest as I stated and enable hardware rendering (software rendering is the default).
And please don’t comment on the support thing if you nothing valuable to contribute with, which you clearly haven’t. You literally just repeat what I have already written.
We don’t do anything special to try and block Rhino from running. Jim is correct that OpenGL (display) is typically an issue.
No. It means that the proper running of Rhino is not guaranteed. You can try it, but you shouldn’t be surprised if things don’t work as they should.
On this forum there are people using Rhino (7) on Linux through Wine. These adventures are chronicled on our Discourse in a long running thread, with the newest post as of this writing Rhino on Linux? - #634 by duanemclemore . There is no support for getting Rhino to run on Linux, but that doesn’t prevent people from trying it. Same here. You are free to try, but there is not the same level of support as for systems that we do support.
We do try to make things work on different systems that are not officially supported, but it isn’t a given. People use Parallels, people try running Rhino on the new ARM-based windows machines through emulation. Some fixes are made to try support these configurations, though, but mostly to get “the bare minimum” working (doesn’t crash). Varying levels at that.
Nice, then I’ll try it out 
