Virtualbox 2.1 OpenGL 3D Accelerated Gaming Demo

Demonstration of two OpenGL based games (Serious Sam The Second Encounter and ProQuake) running in a Windows XP Professional Virtual Machine using Virtualbox 2.1 on Ubuntu 8.10 64-bit. This showcases Virtualbox's new experimental 3D support using OpenGL. Formal DirectX support will hopefully arrive sometime in 2009.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Virtualbox
• Virtualisation
• OpenGL
• Games
• Ubuntu
• Linux
• Windows

[FiR3B4T]

Cool! How do you do that? My XP in VB can't even handle Minecraft because it's not detect any OpenGL.

[hyraxaus]

@FiR3B4T Haven't tried Minecraft, but there's no reason it shouldn't run. Although because it uses Java, and there's currently a bug in the Virtualbox gfx driver that causes Java to go into an endless loop, you may have issues. The fix is to disable OpenGL rendering in Java, so Minecraft may suddenly not work at all after that anyway. Anyway, you don't need Windows to run Minecraft - just run it natively in Linux or Mac.

[miniUMM]

Can i play heavy gear 2 ?

[hyraxaus]

@miniUMM Dunno. Try it and and see.

[implyingimplicit]

well i have 2 graphic card in cf, is there any way to choose secondary gpu for 3d acceleration? vbox alway use primary gpu :( :(

[hyraxaus]

@implyingimplicit CrossFire presents both cards as one big GPU anyway. The idea behind CrossFire is that both gfx cards work together. The only way they can be independent is to disable CrossFire.

[hyraxaus]

@killerrj8 It makes ice cubes.

[claw7755]

linux is great ,,,, can't wait to get my new pc to install ubuntu

[Dylstew2]

I can't get it to work....

[hyraxaus]

@killerrj8 Increase the memory to the virtual memory card then. It's in the settings. And don't expect every game to work. Only the OpenGL games will run the best for now until Microsoft document the DirectX API properly (which they never will do).

[killerrj8]

@hyraxaus can i play good games on Virtual box ur can i somehow change the virtual video card to mine it has 16 MB !!