On Sunday 08 April 2007, Luis Gallardo wrote: > It would be nice to see beryl or 3DDesktop (or any other eye-candy) running > on a VM. > > But honestly, I'd like to have working soon (rather than 3D): > > > 1. Cut and paste between guest and host 'twould be nice. Also dependent on host. Running KDE? Gnome? etc. > 2. Better Memory allocation (just the memory used on real time) OK, but ... in the end, it gets used. I have 512m and am therefore limited regardless. > 3. Host networking for human being. The bridge and iptables techniques > are a little confusing for new users. Or sample scripts or even a barebones UI and generate them could be supplied. I also though I would not understand or get them working but they are really not so horrible after all. Qemu provides many alternatives but are they all easier to understand? The several GUI frontends for Qemu do not touch this stuff! > 4. Run two instances of the same VM Have a few gig around, maybe useful. > 5. Turn on and off VM's without Graphics (server mode) from the > Administrator GUI. Cannot one do this from vboxmanage command line right now? > 6. etc. > > I know, I know...it's a list of things, but they're basic and easier than > 3D stuff (and maybe more attractive for a wider public).
The 3D stuff would aid in performance for all hosts/guests but is a complex problem. Anyone want to play with the sources? There is an opensource version for experimentation. The ideal of being able to use VMs for things other than insulated web-servers, routers and such depends not on better emulation in my mind--this will never get up to speed. Rather, some sort of arbitrator for the actual hardware, DRI, sound, etc., would be necessary. Emulated GPU is still software and one might as well use Mesa. Openvz operates off the host kernel so maybe it can do this (linux hosts only as is Xen). Maybe. This remains a headless VM. All the others have the same problem of emulation. _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
