“Cannot find a valid peer process to connect to” VMware Workstation 10.0.1 while booting a VM

If you use "Bridged" Network Connection (see Virtual Machine Settings: Network Adapter), your VM will be given an IP address on the same LAN as your host machine. At that point, you can just HTTP to your host's IP address, eg. http://192.168.0.100

You can also do that with the other options, but with NAT and Host-only (if I recall correctly) your host machine will appear to your guest machine to have a different IP address than its real LAN address. So Bridged is the easiest and is likely your best bet, unless you have some specific needs.

If you are a noob then I don't think that starting with MESA running on any kind of VM is a good idea.MESA setup is pretty complex in general.Also MESA OpenGL is outdated.It supports up to 3.2 version atm.If you want to get started with OpenGL the right and clean way you should better setup context with libs like GLUT or GLFW and load GL extension with GLEW(there are more).

Also, there are many tutorials on the net on how to get started with OpenGL.One of the best is probably this.

And don't use VM,it slows down performance considerably.

UPDATE:

As it was correctly pointed out here by Datenwolf, MESA implementation is not "outdated" but rather lags after the latest OpenGL specification which is currently 4.4