Cannot support EGL version of paraview

[Jeff0821]

Really cool work!
We found there must be a Display on server side?
But our NVIDIA GPU node is in cluster without X Display, when we try with EGL version, it is reported "Unable to eglMakeCurrent"...

[basnijholt]

It would be great to support this. I am trying to use this package on a remote jupyter notebook on Azure, which has no display (obviously).

Does anyone have an idea what would be required to make it work?

[basnijholt]

@NickLeaf, I have compiled paraview-egl on conda-forge here with the purpose of getting ipyparaview to run on notebooks that run on a computational cluster.

I am attempting to solve this issue but for now, I am not sure how to even debug this issue. Any help would be appreciated.

edit:
I found that the following code also crashes (without using ipyparaview):

from paraview.simple import Sphere, Show, GetActiveView, Render
sphere = Sphere(ThetaResolution=16, PhiResolution=32)
Show(sphere)
v = GetActiveView()
Render(view=v)