Okay now I can download the beta of VirtualBox 3.0. But in the same time, this is the limitation of VirtualBox 2.x.x: OpenGL 1.5.ĭid you notice the renderer name Chromium? Chromium is the virtual OpenGL renderer of VirtualBox. Wooo3D acceleration support can be enabled in VirtualBox settings:Īh… it’s better. So the first things I did were: 1/ install VirtualBox 2.2.4 on my host (Windows XP SP2 32-bit) 2/ create a virtual hard disk (20Gb – it’s an image file on host’s hard disk) and install on this disk Windows Vista Ultimate 32-bit 3/ install the Guest Additions (guest additions provide closer integration between host and guest and improve the interactive performance of guest systems – better mouse integration and above all better graphics card support) and 4/ fire up GPU Caps Viewer: Even if you have the latest Radeon or GeForce monster in the host, a 3D application running in the guest won’t see it. Because in a virtual machine, there is no real hardware and the graphics card is virtualized. What I wanted to see is how GPU Caps Viewer works in the virtual machine. My host machine is an AMD X2 3800+ / 2Gb RAM / GeForce GTX 280 + ForceWare 190.15 / Windows XP SP2 32-bit. To understand what VirtualBox 3.0 brings in OpenGL, I started my experimentations with the previous stable release: VirtualBox 2.2.4. – Support for OpenGL 2.0 for Windows, Linux and Solaris guests – Windows guests: ability to use Direct3D 8/9 applications / games (experimental) – Guest SMP with up to 32 virtual CPUs (VT-x and AMD-V only) Here are the main features of VirtualBox 3.0: More exactly, VirtualBox 3.0 supports OpenGL 2.0 and Direct3D 8.

Wait a minute… why did I decide to test VirtualBox? Because all news claimed VirtualBox 3.0 BETA has now an improved… OpenGL support. Your physical computer is called the host, while the virtual machine is called the guest. What does it mean? With VirtualBox, you can run unmodified operating systems (including all softwares installed on these operating systems) directly on top of your existing operating system, in a special environment called a virtual machine. VirtualBox is a virtualization technology for x86 hardware. VirtualBox is a virtual machine like the famous VMware or VirtualPC (although VirtualPC seems to be limited to run different Windows versions in Windows). And until yesterday I didn’t know this software. VirtualBox… Since somes days, the web is flooded with news about the new major version of VirtualBox (3.0 beta).

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