Kyle McDonald wrote: > 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? The guest graphics support in VB 3.0 is not like Parallels 4.0 where a second NVIDIA GPU can be dedicated for the guest. However, VB 3.0 does support accelerated OpenGL for guests using the NVIDIA hardware on the host. It is quite fast.
Direct3D guest support is not something I've tried. > >> 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?) > I've seen reports of close to 90% of the OpenGL performance on the guest using NVIDIA graphics. Someone else needs to answer the question on the underlying implementation.
