

# If you are using KDE, install lightdm (sudo apt-get install lightdm)

Shutdown the display manager and configure virtualgl server:.Install virtualgl on Ubuntu, by installing the deb file you already downloaded:

Make sure you have installed the proprietary drivers for your graphics card (at least for Nvidia that I have tested this setup). Inititalizationĭownload the following packages for the server: With VirtualGL, the OpenGL commands and 3D data are instead redirected to a 3D graphics accelerator (AKA "graphics processing unit" or "GPU") in the application server, and only the rendered 3D images are sent to the client machine. VirtualGL is an open source toolkit that gives any Unix or Linux remote display software the ability to run OpenGL applications with full 3D hardware acceleration. When you use ssh with X forwarding, you might have noticed that you cannot execute programs that require 3D acceleration.
