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Running GL applications through UTM: GLX: Failed to create context: GLXBadFBConfig

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I have a Mac with OSX installed, and I'm trying to run a virtual machine with Debian. I am using [utm](https://mac.getutm.app/) to virtualize Debian with the arm64 arch. When I run kitty, a graphical Linux terminal with 3D-acceleration, I'm getting Failed to create GLFW temp window! This usually happens because of old/broken OpenGL drivers. kitty requires working OpenGL 3.3 drivers. How can I resolve this error? I can get around this error with LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=true kitty But, I want hardware acceleration which utm claims to support. If I look at my video device with lspci, I see it's
00:02.0 Display controller: Red Hat, Inc. Virtio GPU (rev 01)
Asked by Evan Carroll (679 rep)
Mar 1, 2023, 05:20 PM
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