Calum's Wee GNOME Blog » opengl http://blogs.gnome.org/calum Usability an' that Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:33:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Compiz in a Box http://blogs.gnome.org/calum/2009/04/08/compiz-in-a-box/ http://blogs.gnome.org/calum/2009/04/08/compiz-in-a-box/#comments Wed, 08 Apr 2009 16:32:31 +0000 calum http://blogs.gnome.org/calum/?p=409 In VirtualBox 2.2.0, which was released today, that is. The new OpenGL acceleration for Linux and Solaris guests allows compiz to run very nicely in a virtual machine. (Click the thumbnail for a Theora video of compiz running in an OpenSolaris guest in OS X.)

Compiz running in VirtualBox

Compiz running in VirtualBox

EDIT: I suppose I ought to add there’s some other cool stuff in 2.2.0 as well, particularly the ability to import/export appliances in OVF format.

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