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Re: Hypervisor on an existing system?



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.
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