Hi! The 3D driver is much better than i expected for a first release! Just installed a demo of quake2 and with opengl rendering i can get over 80FPS in 800x600.
Nice of work! Cheers Armindo On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 1:45 PM, Frank Mehnert <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi, > > today Sun released VirtualBox 2.1.0. The following major new features were > added: > > * Support for hardware virtualization (VT-x and AMD-V) on Mac OS X hosts > * Support for 64-bit guests on 32-bit host operating systems > (experimental; > see user manual, chapter 1.6, 64-bit guests, page 16) > * Added support for Intel Nehalem virtualization enhancements (EPT and > VPID; see user manual, chapter 1.2, Software vs. hardware virtualization > (VT-x and AMD-V), page 10)) > * Experimental 3D acceleration via OpenGL (see user manual, chapter 4.8, > Hardware 3D acceleration (OpenGL), page 66) > * Experimental LsiLogic and BusLogic SCSI controllers (see user manual, > chapter 5.1, Hard disk controllers: IDE, SATA (AHCI), SCSI, page 70) > * Full VMDK/VHD support including snapshots (see user manual, chapter 5.2, > Disk image files (VDI, VMDK, VHD), page 72) > * New NAT engine with significantly better performance, reliability and > ICMP > echo (ping) support (bugs #1046, #2438, #2223, #1247) > * New Host Interface Networking implementations for Windows and Linux > hosts > with easier setup (replaces TUN/TAP on Linux and manual bridging on > Windows) > > Apart from these new features we fixed/improved a bunch of items. Please > have a look at > > http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog > > for more details. The binaries and the manual can be downloaded here: > > http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads > > Have fun, > > Frank > -- > Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert Sun Microsystems http://www.sun.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > vbox-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev > > -- -- "The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible." Sir Arthur C. Clarke
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