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Virtualbox 3.0 Announces OpenGL/Direct3D Support 161

Posted by timothy
from the can-this-vm-be-simulated-though dept.
bl8n8r writes "Apparently, Virtualbox 3.0 released today (2009-07-01) brings with it 'OpenGL 2.0 for Windows, Linux and Solaris guests; and experimental support for Direct3D 8/9 applications on Windows guests.' Maybe we can finally game in a VM?"
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  • Finally? (Score:5, Funny)

    by RichardJenkins (1362463) on Wednesday July 01 2009, @06:36PM (#28551061)
    What do you mean finally? I'm playing Minesweeper in a VM now.

  • Re:I wouldn't count on it (Score:4, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 01 2009, @06:43PM (#28551131)

    "...not something that can be used for serious gaming."

    WTF?

    Sorry, I didn't know I was speaking to a "professional". :-/

  • Wow. What are your frame rates? Do the tile bevels look any better? ;)

  • BILLY MAYS HERE (Score:4, Funny)

    by BillyMays (1587805) on Wednesday July 01 2009, @07:20PM (#28551579)
    With virtualbox from Sun! now with three-d acceleration!

    You've got problems, we all know what it's like not being able to develop on windows - but you can't seem to give up counterstrike! Notepad carriage return issues, archaic command line functions, the works - all gone in a jiffy with Virtualbox(tm)!

    Want to pwn noobs from the comfort of a linux environment!? No problem. Toss xp on there, Bam! It's done!
    Want to show people your awp skills while still being able to strace!? Easy as boom-headshot with virtualbox!

    Call now and for no extra cost we'll throw in the latest jre for absolutely free!

  • Re:w00t! Kidz are Happy! (Score:1, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 01 2009, @07:29PM (#28551699)

    As I use Linux (Ubuntu and openSUSE) on my primary home machines, I tend to run the Windows stuff - aside from Office 2007 - in VB.

    You run Windows stuff in Visual Basic? No wonder your kids complain.

  • Anyone try X-Wing/Tie Figher/XvT ? (Score:3, Funny)

    by erroneus (253617) on Wednesday July 01 2009, @07:38PM (#28551781) Homepage

    This could be the upgrade I've been waiting for... now all I have to do is dig up an old copy. Has anyone tried it already?

  • Re:Finally? (Score:3, Funny)

    by hedwards (940851) on Wednesday July 01 2009, @08:07PM (#28552087)
    No, but just wait until we get physics acceleration support. The explosions will be truly breathtaking.

  • Re:w00t! Kidz are Happy! (Score:3, Funny)

    by filesiteguy (695431) <kai@perfectreign.com> on Wednesday July 01 2009, @11:10PM (#28553479) Homepage
    I'd laugh, except that I'm still supporting a 90's era VB6 program, which is written with Office in mind such that Excel spreadsheets are opened, closed and eventually that data are saved to a sql server... ...you'd think that being a PHB, I'd not have to do VB programming anymore.

  • Help!! DIY X-Wing install (Score:4, Funny)

    by Max Littlemore (1001285) on Thursday July 02 2009, @02:55AM (#28554625)

    I'm sure DOSBox runs great within Virtual Box... but will they read my old floppies?

    I got DOSBox in VirtualBox, and a copy of X-Wing, but it is tricky reading the old floppies with modern hardware. With a bit of determination, I was able to insert a mini usb plug in under the sliding metal thingy on the disk, but the computer still can't work.

    At first I thought it was the host OS lacking the correct drivers, but then I realised that floppies are much slower than usb drives, so they need to operate at a lower frequency. If I could just up the frequency, I could read the data!

    Okay, here are the numbers. A high speed floppy would get around 500 Kbps tops and the USB transfer is around about 29.5 Mbps, so the floppy is around 1.7% the speed of the USB. So if I increase the speed of the USB connection by 59 times, I should get the USB to read the floppy correctly. Now a microwave oven works at 2.45 Ghz, so I figured that, seeing that that is ~83 times the speed of the USB, with a little bit of duct tape and some copper foil sheilding the usb cable, I could get the increase I needed in the floppy without over doing it.

    So I put the floppy with the cable inserted in it and wrapped in copper foil and duct tape into the microwave, jammed the safety switch with a plastic spoon so I could run it with the door open (don't worry, I sat behind the microwave) and plugged it into the computer. Then I quickly turned the microwave on and read the data coming from the cable.

    It didn't work first time, but that was because the USB wasn't acting like a drive, so the computer could "read" it. Unfortunately it was so fast that it blew up the usb port (I think, it wont read my thumb stick).

    So then I opened up an old flash drive (32MB) which I have filled with 0x00 and carefully attached the chip to the disk surface with a spot of hot glue. When I plugged it in, the computer recognized it as "removable media", so I again started the microwave to spin up the disk frequency. This time there was more smoke, not just from the microwave (to be expected), but also from the usb port!!!

    Can anyone help me with the right number of winds of duct tape needed to slow the floppy frequency from the 41.5Mbps I am getting to the 29.6 Mbps I need? I think the extra speed is causing overload, I am running out of USB ports and I just got a nosebleed. Also, does anyone have another copy of X-Wing? Mine is a bit worn :-(

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