Questions about gaming in Linux / virtualization

[Scott Elcomb]

On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 4:13 PM, Lennart Sorensen
<lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Virtualization won't let you use the video card as far as I know, so
> know 3D accaleration, which makes that idea useless pretty much.
>
> It's pretty much down to wine or native.  No other choices if it
> requires 3D graphics.

The VirtualBox wiki has a comparisons page that shows it doesn't
support 3D acceleration.  It does mention that VMware has limited
support for it.

http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/VBox_vs_Others

If 3D support is required then VMware Workstation 5 might be the way
to go - a couple of search results explain how to load existing OS
installations into VM's and how to setup 3D for Windows VM's:

http://www.vmware.com/support/ws5/doc/ws_vidsound_d3d_enabling_vm.html
http://www.vmware.com/support/ws5/doc/ws_disk_dualboot.html

I've used Workstation 5 and was very pleased with it.  VirtualBox
became my virtualizer of choice simply because it's FOSS.

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