On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 13:44, Andrei Thorp <garoth@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Last I checked, you can't run 3D games inside of a virtual machine, > unless something's changed. Anyone confirm? > > -AT You can, with some hacking. However I have yet to successfully make this work with a win 7 VM. For XP in virtualbox, the following should work: 1) Set up the VM, ensuing the 3d accel checkbox is checked 2) Install XP 3) Install the virtualbox guest additions 4) Install wined3d into in windows from here: http://aybabtu.com/rmh/wined3d/ After that, you should have fully operational opengl and d3d acceleration in your XP guest machine. I have used this successfully with audiosurf, other games may or may not work depending on what hardware checks they make and what parts of d3d they use. NOTE: you should disable mouse integration when playing games under this. The integration features mess up the mouse controls rather badly. NOTE: When wined3d asks you which parts to install, do NOT check the first one, for direct2d. Doing so will break your XP install. Checking the directx 8, 9 and 10 boxes however are all safe, so far as I can tell. HTH -Aren Olson -- "Whoever said sunshine brings happiness has never danced in the rain." - K. Jackson Ubuntu Linux - www.ubuntu.com
