Comments on: Compiz in a Box

By: Samat

Samat — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 05:17:00 +0000

For DirectX support in Windows guest, see the new WineD3D project. It emulates DirectX through OpenGL in Windows guests so you can at least get some acceleration.

By: calum

calum — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 19:49:17 +0000

@Marius: Well, I’ve already reported a couple of bugs in the OpenGL code, so don’t be afraid to report some more http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Bugtracker

By: Marius Gedminas

Marius Gedminas — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 18:04:12 +0000

Awesome!

(Not that I had any reason to think otherwise; my “this sounds too good to be true” reaction kicked in. E.g. now it thinks this is going to trigger new and interesting bugs in the intel driver when using UXA…

By: calum

calum — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 14:45:55 +0000

@Marius: Have just confirmed with the dev team, the OpenGL acceleration code is open source.

By: calum

calum — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 13:29:21 +0000

Not yet, but it’s on my list to try…

By: Daniel Borgmann

Daniel Borgmann — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 13:21:42 +0000

Awesome! I was waiting for one of the VMs for OS X to finally support this.

Did anyone try gnome-shell with it yet?

By: calum

calum — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 10:12:24 +0000

@Karl: It’s only OpenGL for now. I’ve heard that DirectX is on the roadmap, but I don’t know the priority/timeline for that.

By: Karl Lattimer

Karl Lattimer — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 09:36:49 +0000

Is only OpenGL supported or can DirectX be done allowing windows gaming without wine?

By: Darwin Survivor

Darwin Survivor — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 01:34:15 +0000

I must say, this is amazing. Until now, opengl was about the only thing you couldn’t do in a VM. Well, I guess we showed us, huh?

By: calum

calum — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 22:24:27 +0000

@el_barto: Just using the “vboxvideo” driver that’s installed with the VirtualBox guest additions.