30.05.2011, 18:54, "Marko Vojinovic" <vvmarko(a)gmail.com>:
On Monday 30 May 2011 08:20:40 Misha Shnurapet wrote:
> VMs don't have a working 3D support. I don't know why you keep trying.
VirtualBox offers 3D support for the client system, up to the available
capabilities of the host system. This means that if you have good 3D video
accelerated drivers on your host system, you can make use of it from within
the client as well.
I remember seeing similar 3D support in VMware as well, last time I used it.
Don't know about KVM, QEMU, Xen, and others.
The 3D support is often labelled as experimental, not quite perfect in all
circumstances, but in general it does work. For example, I have a WinXP client
under VirtualBox on a F14 host. With the Fedora-provided open source 3D
drivers for my Intel graphics hardware, I am able to run and play Quake3 on
the WinXP guest. It works as fast as the linux version running natively on
F14.
That said, I remember that one needs to jump through hoops to enable it, at
least on VirtualBox. It isn't enabled by default (there is a checkbox in the
graphics settings that needs to be ticked), and the VBox-provided drivers for
the WinXP client need to be installed when the client is in safe-mode, if they
are to work. Or something like that, I don't remember exactly. But once this
is done, 3D video generally works in the client, most games work well, etc.
Agreed. It would mostly work.
I am almost tempted to install F15 as a client, just to see all that
fuss
about Gnome3 (and being a long-term KDE user, have a good laugh as well ;-) ).
I probably won't have time for that, however...
I have been using GNOME 3 on two different devices I own. There is no base for all that
fuss really. :-)
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Best regards,
Misha Shnurapet, Fedora Project Contributor
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