A little teaser of what is to come :)

tjw · December 13, 2017, 9:04am

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

leooow · December 13, 2017, 11:32am

Blasphemy

Misairu_G · December 13, 2017, 12:16pm

And what time wound that be?

gnif · December 13, 2017, 12:19pm

When I wake up and it’s the 14th in the US

Really though, wendell has been putting together a video to coincide with the release, so once we tee up on the 14th we will release simultaneously, no fixed exact time though.

risk · December 13, 2017, 1:18pm

tomorrow

Dynamic_Gravity · December 13, 2017, 2:34pm

Tomorrow is the day!

excitement

gnif · December 13, 2017, 2:39pm

Please note everyone that a new issue has been discovered, if you have already followed the guides and prepared your virtual machine’s for Looking Glass you will need to change the number of IRQs that ivshmem-server starts with, originally I stated 1 IRQ, because we really only use one, but there is some strange hang issue with only specifying one.

I have updated the guides to allocate 8 interrupts which will be fine and replicates my development/test environment, so confirmed stable.

The updated command is:

ivshmem-server -p /tmp/ivshmem.pid -S /tmp/ivshmem_socket -l 16M -n 8

m_hillman · December 13, 2017, 11:13pm

I had to use my extra gpu on a different project so I won’t be using this right away.
Still very excited about this coming out.

gnif · December 14, 2017, 12:45am

Well… it’s done…

There is a binary build of the Windows host application on the website so you don’t need to mess around with Visual Studio:

https://looking-glass.hostfission.com/downloads

Verequies · December 14, 2017, 12:48am

Awesome!!! Thanks @gnif - I sure hope this will work on my laptop Will report back any findings/issues.

Misairu_G · December 14, 2017, 1:55am

Does Looking Glass support running headless? Or do we still need to plug an extra monitor?

I’m trying to use the client, but it appears to only get the same display as SPICE client (which is render by QXL) instead of using the GPU.

Edit: OK, a dummy device is still needed. Not a great news for laptop.

tjw · December 14, 2017, 2:23am

You’re a legend mate. Looks like I am the first fork.

anon42298116 · December 14, 2017, 4:14am

The first fork of many

useraddf · December 14, 2017, 5:09am

hmm?
after typing make

Package gl was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `gl.pc’
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
Package ‘gl’, required by ‘virtual:world’, not found
Package ‘glu’, required by ‘virtual:world’, not found
gcc -c -g -O3 -std=gnu99 -march=native -Wall -Werror -I./ -I…/common -DDEBUG -ffast-math -fdata-sections -ffunction-sections -DBUILD_VERSION=’“a2-0-g8c2709a3f4”’ -o .build/main.o main.c
In file included from lg-renderers.h:21:0,
from main.c:42:
lg-renderer.h:25:10: fatal error: SDL_ttf.h: No such file or directory
#include <SDL_ttf.h>

gnif · December 14, 2017, 5:12am

Seems I missed a dependency and need to correct SDL path. Make sure you have whatever flavor of libgl*-dev installed for your video card.

Fixed:

useraddf · December 14, 2017, 5:14am

no errors now
moving forward

useraddf · December 14, 2017, 5:59am

cannot open shm file ivshmem: Permission denied
cannot bind

derp

SgtAwesomesauce · December 14, 2017, 6:07am

Please direct all support inquiries to this thread:

Looking Glass - Guides, Help and Support Linux

Looking Glass What is looking glass? It is a program that uses DXGI (or NvFBC if you're on Quadros or better on Nvidia) to directly capture what is displayed on a video card in a windows virtual machine and then display that on a QEMU/KVM Linux Host in near real-time. Aren't there programs like Remote Desktop, VNC, etc that do this? Those programs provide remote access, yes, but in this case we are copying uncompressed the actual RGBA frames from the render pipeline on the virtual machine for display on the host. It seems similar, but is entirely different. For one we have extremely low latency (probably even less as time goes on since most of our latency seems to be down to the render pipeline in vendors' drivers rather than our own code...). If you are using IOMMU graphics in a virtual machine, and want to use productivity apps on that windows virtual machine at full speed/native performance, you should give this project a look. Known Issues This program is *alpha* quality. It's got bugs. Lots of bugs. It might be more bugs than substrate at this point (not really, but you know). Please read this thread very carefully before posting for help. Many known issues are posted on Geoff's site as well. Note: QEMU currently has a bug in relative-movement mouse pointers that is being worked on. For now, we still recommend using a separate input device (or toggling USB input passthrough between) because of these bugs in QEMU. They’re aware of them, will be fixed soon. Note2: For now, you probably still need something plugged into the passed-through GPU. This seems to depend, a bit, on the GPU but you can use a secondary input on your monitor (often) but not have to actually switch inputs to that display. We have also tested “dummy” EDID DisplayPort plugs as seen in the video, and those work fine, but it is hard to find dummy plugs that have a wide variety of supported display modes. We’ll probably link to some known good ones soon. OMG You Guys Rock! This is the help t…

That said, try this:

sudo rm /tmp/ivshmem_socket

and run it again. (killing the ivshmem server leaves the socket file)

tjw · December 14, 2017, 9:29am

Small correction to fedora’s build documentation:

$ dnf install git mesa-libGL-devel mesa-libGLU-devel SDL2-devel SDL2_ttf-devel openssl-devel spice-protocol fontconfig-devel libX11-devel gnu-free-mono-fonts ivshmem-tools

gnif · December 14, 2017, 9:44am

Please submit it as an issue on the github repo