Re: Hypervisor on an existing system?
On Tue, 23 Dec 2008 08:12:36 -0600
"Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <bss03@volumehost.net> wrote:
> On Monday 22 December 2008, Ross Boylan
> <RossBoylan@stanfordalumni.org> wrote about 'Re: Hypervisor on an
> existing system?':
> >All I really wanted was to run MS Windows to watch TV online and
> >maybe play games; I'm thinking maybe qemu is the way to go for that.
>
> Some games are not going to be playable under an emulator (kvm, qemu,
> virtualbox, vmware-workstation) or under a hypervisor (xen,
> vmware-esx). Anything that uses Direct3D, e.g., needs direct hardware
> access to the video card, which isn't available under either of those
> environments right now.
I run Vbox-peul edition version 2.1.0. This supports USB devices in
guest O/S. also has 3D enabled on my NVIDIA graphics card.. One H--- of
a lot faster than native install of MS.
FWIW
Jack
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