Running through VirtualGL¶

When no graphic acceleration is available through opengl, it is not possible to use tools such as anatomist.
A solution is to use the VirtualGL tools to emulate an opengl accelerated environment.

Installing VirtualGL¶

Download the latest version for your system from http://sourceforge.mirrorservice.org/v/vi/virtualgl
Or for Debian 64bits system, you can directly use the following commands (replace the version with the version you want):

wget --no-check-certificate -O /tmp/virtualgl_2.5.1_amd64.deb http://sourceforge.mirrorservice.org/v/vi/virtualgl/2.5.1/virtualgl_2.5.1_amd64.deb

Then install it:

sudo dpkg -i /tmp/virtualgl_2.5.1_amd64.deb

If you wish to use virtualgl with wine (which is a 32-bits application) on Ubuntu-14.04, you will also need to install 32-bits version of virtualgl and libxv1:

sudo apt install libxv1:i386
wget --no-check-certificate -O /tmp/virtualgl32_2.5.1_amd64.deb http://sourceforge.mirrorservice.org/v/vi/virtualgl/2.5.1/virtualgl32_2.5.1_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i /tmp/virtualgl32_2.5.1_amd64.deb

Running application through VirtualGL¶

You only need to use the vglrun command to start your applications:

vglrun anatomist

And it is the same using wine:

vglrun wine anatomist.exe