Core: Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS, Intel® Core™ i7-7700K CPU @ 4.20GHz × 8, 32GB RAM running Roon Server without issue.
Client: Windows 10 x64 VM, VMware Workstation Pro 16. VM provisioned with 16GB RAM and 4 virtual CPU cores.
Networking Gear & Setup Details
Host: Wireless mesh network attached to Ubiquiti ER-X.
Client: VM NAT.
Connected Audio Devices
VM is intended as a client so is connected to nothing other than my host sound card using VMware drivers. Host runs Roon Server for Linux perfectly with attached sound card working as an ALSA endpoint. No need to list audio gear as everything works except this specific client. I usually control playback with iPhone or iPad client without issue. As mentioned earlier Roon server works without fault on this host machine.
Library Size
21,899 tracks stored locally.
Description of Issue
Roon does not start and has never started on VM. Program starts and freezes on black window as shown below. No load is observed on system.
I have installed Roon on WINE and it works really well. I’m surprised and delighted by the performance I’m seeing.
For anyone stumbling across this post it turned out that I needed to use the development branch of WINE because the winetricks .NET Framework 4.8 package is not supported on the stable branch. On winehq-stable was able to install and launch Roon but it would hang on clicking ‘agree’ without .NET runtime installed.
I mentioned this is the other thread about running Roon in a Windows VM. You can download the opengl32.dll drivers and copy them into your installed Roon directory. That is how I run Roon in a Windows 10 VM.