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Virtualbox 2.1 OpenGL 3D Accelerated Gaming Demo
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Demonstration of two OpenGL based games (Serious Sam The Second Encounter and ProQuake) running in a Windows XP Professional Virtual Machine using Virtualbox 2.1 on Ubuntu 8.10 64-bit. This showcases Virtualbox’s new experimental 3D support using OpenGL. Formal DirectX support will hopefully arrive sometime in 2009.
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linux is great ,,,, can’t wait to get my new pc to install ubuntu
Dude, that’s sick. Can’t wait til I get a better PC to test this.
Devotion, Talent and Luck at least those factors I greatly underestimated now the software I want to run would ask for some Direct 7 and back but this is a wonderful start. If only Microsoft would make a portable software emulator for like the first 5 or so they are relatively simple and the modern CPU could handle the calls I am sure. But whatever I guess Microsoft is more in it for profit than utility anyways.
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Even I was fully expecting the “end” of 2009, not the middle of it. I guess we all underestimated the devotion the Sun Microsystems developers have for Virtualbox!
Your right sometime in 2009 and I was hopeful but reserved in saying it “will” happen but never imagined so early in the year. I really hope that it will expand to earlier versions of D3D since i run Vista main plan to switch to 7 when its released. Libraries 8 and 9 are fine in Vista its the earlier stuff i want to be able to have this to run. like 5 to 7 before that it would be nice to have some 9x support but I don’t see that happening anytime soon well as far as Virtualbox isconcerned
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I haven’t checked the latest 3.0 Beta release out completely yet but for Virtualbox 2.1, the 3D support was only for Windows XP. Vista was not supported for OpenGL at that time.
wow how do you do that i have install windows vista and the only game i can run is in m.a.m.e or a simple instalation of a software like winzip my machine amd opteron cabye @ 3ghz 4gb ram sb x-fi xtreme gamer 9800gt on ubuntu 8.10 64 bits
Well, OK nitpickers – low-end in terms of current hardware. lol
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looks like it wont be very long before linux wastes xp =)
rofl ya how low end cause the desk top im using is a duel core athlon x2 2.31 ghz with 3 gigs ram an an old nvidea 7200 se
Ok… that’s a WOW. Can’t wait for it to come into Debian.
Hey! Low end? What does that make my laptop – Celeron 1.6GHz with Intel card and 512MB RAM?
(It’s an Inspiron 1300.)
I’m using an Intel Q9450 Quad-Core system with 8GB DDR2 RAM and an NVidia GeForce 8800GT 512MB PCE-E gfx card, but Virtualbox will do this same test pretty much identically on a low-end E4200 Core 2 Duo system.
what are your system spec if you dont mind telling?
Virtualbox 3.0 BETA2 is now out. Fixes some bugs from Beta1, but still has a long way to go. OpenGL still runs great but DirectX still needs work.
Did you install the Virtualbox Additions driver? That’s the driver for the virtual gfx card within XP so Windows knows how to provide larger screen resolutions than the default VESA ones.
Thanks for the video man. I downloaded the latest virtual box for OS X and i’m running guest Windows XP. How can i increase the window size of CS? When I’m playing CS..the window becomes very small and hard to play. Thanks in advance if you can help.
cool, I’ll try it out this week
People, Virtualbox 3.0 BETA1 is now available for download with EXPERIMENTAL Direct3D support!
Get it from download. virtualbox. org/virtualbox/3.0.0_BETA1/
The demo was 32-bit Windows on 64-bit Ubuntu, thus the answer is “yes you can”.
i belive i said “you didnt mension if the windows vm was 32bit” or guest OS if you prefer.
i ask because i have a 64bit ubuntu dual boot and i’d like to know if i can use vitualbox to run 32bit windows in 64bit Ubuntu to play my 32bit only Windows games.
Well, all Windows XP games are 32-bit meaning you’re forced to run Windows XP 32-bit (practically nothing works for 64-bit XP). My Ubuntu install is 64-bit – I believe I mentioned that in the video.
Virtualbox can run up to about 1060 or so VM’s (32-bit or 64-bit) on one host simultaneously (assuming sufficient system resources are available of course).
you didnt mension if the windows vm was 32bit or 64bit. meaning i could have a ubuntu 64bit, and have the option to have 2 vm’s 32bit and 64bit. getting more performance from my 64bit games and still have support for my 32bit only games, wooo!
I should add that the performance of any game will ultimately be subject to the power of the underlying host. Virtualbox cannot make a virtual Windows session run better than it would under a native Windows session. At best, they will be the same. At worst it will be a fraction slower (it already runs most things at about 95% of native installed speed). In day to day use, it’s very difficult to tell any speed penalty – you’d only know if you compared two identical hosts side by side, VM vs real.
DirectX (Direct3D) support is due from Sun at the end of Q3 2009 (according to Sun’s latest tech brief). In the next month we should get a new version of Virtualbox (about v2.5 I think) that will contain experimental support, and then 2.6 should theoretically contain full support. Given the OpenGL performance, I would expect DirectX performance to be really good.