Paraview crash 3 seconds after opening (windows server)

ParaView Support
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Hello,

I am trying to install Paraview on a machine running on AWS, but when I try to open it, the software opens for a few seconds and then just crashes. I also tried with previous versions of Paraview and I have the same problem.

The machine has the following characteristics:
Processor: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2666 v3 @ 2.90GHz (2 processors)
OS: Windows Server 2022 Datacenter
There is no GPU

I have this log:
( uptime ) [ thread name/id ] file:line v|
( 2.602s) [paraview ]vtkWin32OpenGLRenderWin:680 ERR| vtkWin32OpenGLRenderWindow (00000185AFD1EC10): failed to get wglChoosePixelFormatARB
( 2.603s) [paraview ]vtkWin32OpenGLRenderWin:758 ERR| vtkWin32OpenGLRenderWindow (00000185AFD1EC10): failed to get valid pixel format.
( 2.603s) [paraview ]vtkOpenGLRenderWindow.c:493 ERR| vtkWin32OpenGLRenderWindow (00000185AFD1EC10): GLEW could not be initialized: Missing GL version
( 3.098s) [paraview ]vtkWin32OpenGLRenderWin:680 ERR| vtkWin32OpenGLRenderWindow (00000185C231B040): failed to get wglChoosePixelFormatARB
( 3.114s) [paraview ]vtkWin32OpenGLRenderWin:758 ERR| vtkWin32OpenGLRenderWindow (00000185C231B040): failed to get valid pixel format.
( 3.115s) [paraview ]vtkOpenGLRenderWindow.c:493 ERR| vtkWin32OpenGLRenderWindow (00000185C231B040): GLEW could not be initialized: Missing GL version

Could you help me on this?

Thank you!

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Are you using some kind of remote desktop mechanism ?

In any case, you may want to run a osmesa or egl pvserver on the remote and the ParaView client locally.

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Hi Mathieu, thank you for your answer.

Yes indeed I am using Microsoft Remote Desktop.
Could you explain how we could use these tools to access ParaView?

Thank you in advance

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