John Martin wrote: > Kyle McDonald wrote: >> Just curious... :) >> >> A second question, If I want to have the machine running OS or SXCE, >> and run Windows in Virtual Box (Can I run Windows in Xvm?) Will >> Windows have decent(full?) access to graphics HW? >> >> I appologize since this isn't 100% the right forum for this, but it's >> the only list I could think of where a technial graphics card >> question might get answered. >> >> I'm afraid I'm still not totally up to speed on how the guests and HV >> share access to devices. I want to mainly run Solaris on this machine >> (for X, ZFS, etc) but I know my family will require Windows - with >> games being important to my son. I was hoping to not have to >> buy/build 2 machines. :) >> >> Dual boot isn't an option really becuase i want to have Solaris >> sharing the ZFS storage through CIFS so it needs to be booted all the >> time. > I missed the original question and don't see it in the xwin-discuss > archives. Sorry. The original question was the one in the subject line. :) > > SLI works on Solaris, although it is not officially supported. > However, I'm not quite > certain how SLI would pertain to a VB guest running Windows. > What I was getting at, was does VB (in full screen mode at least) allow the guest (windows) to directly manage (or close enough) the Video HW like it would if it was a physical machine (i.e. will windows know it has say a nVidia GTX 275?) or will VB present windows with some other virtual device, with VB doing some sort of translation back and forth?
> VirtualBox 3.x supports accelerated 3D in guests, but I have not > tested Windows as > a guest running under Solaris as a host. I'm most concerned about > expectations for > Direct3D in this case. Are you just looking for OpenGL behavior or > Direct3D also? Well, in my case (having the family not be able to tell that solaris is there ;) ,) My kids would like to see the windoews games they play run, and run with some playable performance. I dont' expect 100% of what the card could do if windows was on a physical machine, but I'd like to know how close it can come? Is the VB 'viewer' an X11/OGL application? Even in a Full screen mode (if it exists?) -Kyle
