I just ran netflix player on a OS X 10.5 box running parralls with xp. The machine is a quad core with 8 gigs of ram. The VM is using 2 cores and 4 gig. Thomas
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 3:20 PM, Nathan Nutter <[email protected]> wrote: > As of VirtualBox 3.0: > * Windows guests: ability to use Direct3D 8/9 applications / games > (experimental; see chapter 4.8 of the user manual) > * Support for OpenGL 2.0 for Windows, Linux and Solaris guests > > Video performance has been something all the VMs have been working on. > Keep in mind that there are feature differences between virtualbox-ose > and virtualbox, video acceleration may be one of them. Also, you may > just need to allocate more video memory to the virtual video card, the > default is like 16MB. When you tried it were you using 3.0+? > > On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 1:23 PM, Scott Granneman <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I'd be leery of using such a video-intensive product like that in > > VirtualBox. It might work better with VMWare or Parallels, since > > they're a bit better than VB when it comes to video support, but I > > dunno. > > > > Scott > > -- > > R. Scott Granneman > > [email protected] ~ www.granneman.com > > Full list of publications @ http://www.granneman.com/publications > > My new book: Google Apps Deciphered @ http://www.granneman.com/books > > > > "I am not young enough to know everything." > > ---Oscar Wilde > > > > On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Bob Therina <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Has anyone tried Netflix through Virtualbox on Kubuntu? I have it on a > 3.0 > >> GHz P4 with 1.8 GB RAM ATI Radion with 128 MB and running Windows XP in > the > >> VM. I tried it once while only having 768 MB in the box total with 256 > MB > >> allotted to the VM. It worked, but was real choppy. Apparently if you > try > >> too many different configurations you get locked out of "watch now" on > >> Netflix. I guess it needs some balance between the guest and host OS's. > >> > >> Bob > >> > >> -- > >> Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) > >> Main page: http://www.cwelug.org > >> To post: [email protected] > >> To subscribe: [email protected] > >> To unsubscribe: [email protected] > >> More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug > > > > -- > > Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) > > Main page: http://www.cwelug.org > > To post: [email protected] > > To subscribe: [email protected] > > To unsubscribe: [email protected] > > More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug > > > > -- > Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) > Main page: http://www.cwelug.org > To post: [email protected] > To subscribe: [email protected] > To unsubscribe: [email protected] > More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug > -- Central West End Linux Users Group (via Google Groups) Main page: http://www.cwelug.org To post: [email protected] To subscribe: [email protected] To unsubscribe: [email protected] More options: http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug
