30.05.2011, 18:54, "Marko Vojinovic" <vvmarko@xxxxxxxxx>: > 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. :-) -- Best regards, Misha Shnurapet, Fedora Project Contributor https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Shnurapet shnurapet AT fedoraproject.org, GPG: 00217306 -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
