I have a Virtual Machine with Centos 7.9 installed on VirtualBox 7.0 (running on Windows 11).
I managed to installed different versions of Houdini from 18.0 to 20.0 with no problem. I can launch all of them, the license is validated properly and Houdini opens.
The problem is with the viewport: it is black (the background settings do not seem to affect), all objects created appear also black making the interaction very difficult (see images centos_issue_1.png and centos_issue_2.png).
It feels like an issue with the virtualization or the OpenGL.
I checked the OpenGL version:
OpenGL version string: 3.3 (Compatibility Profile) Mesa 18.3.4
I thought this could be the reason as the OpenGL version should be 4.0. However, I have another VM with Rocky 9.2, using the same OpenGL version and I don't have viewport issues there (tested on 20.0.653), everything seems to work fine.
I did other checks related to the video card:
$ lspci | grep VGA
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: VMware SVGA II Adapter
$ find /dev -group video
/dev/fb0
/dev/dri/card0
/dev/dri/renderD128
$ glxinfo | grep -i vendor
server glx vendor string: SGI
client glx vendor string: Mesa Project and SGI
Vendor: VMware, Inc. (0xffffffff)
OpenGL vendor string: VMware, Inc.
$ lspci -k | grep -EA3 'VGA|3D|Display'
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: VMware SVGA II Adapter
Subsystem: VMware SVGA II Adapter
Kernel driver in use: vmwgfx
Is there an imcompatibility with anything in my VM configuration? Is it an OpenGL problem in Centos 7 specifically?
Thanks so much in advance!
Regards
Carlos