VMware's Gallium3D Driver For Virtualization

[RealNC]

Oh, btw, I run Windows 7 in a VM under Linux, and I can run Direct3D games in it. Aero works too. Fusion on the Mac is quite popular because of this.

[RealNC]

Why are you stuck with game development? Why does it have to be only games that can use this? I could be developing a video player that uses OpenGL to render the video. Or even with games, I could be writing a 2D game that uses OpenGL textures. Or I could be writing a Compiz or KDE effect. Or I would like to see how my software behaves in a composited environment. Or, as I already mentioned, I am a Mac/Windows user who wants to use Linux in a VM and have a nice desktop experience with it.

[yogi_berra]

Why the heck does that even matter? People not working on multi-million dollar titles don't develop software and don't need VMs capable of accelerated OpenGL? People who run Windows or OS X shouldn't get accelerated graphics when they run Linux inside a VM? And last but not least, what the heck is your point? "I don't need it, therefore no one else does"?

Are you purposefully being obtuse or just ignorant of how most VM's lack the functionality to do what suggest?

VMWare, VirtualBox, and QEMU do not provide access to the host's videocard, they emulate a low end card that no sane game developer is going to target. To be blunt: You're not going to test your game in an environment that will never support the features that it requires to run.

[RealNC]

Why the heck does that even matter? People not working on multi-million dollar titles don't develop software and don't need VMs capable of accelerated OpenGL? People who run Windows or OS X shouldn't get accelerated graphics when they run Linux inside a VM? And last but not least, what the heck is your point? "I don't need it, therefore no one else does"?

[yogi_berra]

I'm not going to watch the video, but why is the idea crazy? I do it. I run about 12 VMs here where I test my stuff. And a lot of people do the same.

Yeah, and are you working on triple A game titles that require features that the emulated video hardware doesn't have? Of course not.

[RealNC]

I'm not going to watch the video, but why is the idea crazy? I do it. I run about 12 VMs here where I test my stuff. And a lot of people do the same. So how exactly is that crazy?

The crazy idea is NOT using VMs. Yeah, good luck running 12 machines instead of just one. If that's not crazy, then I don't know.

[yogi_berra]

Uhm, Windows and Mac users running Linux inside VMWare? Developers testing their 3D software in many Linux Distros that they install inside VMWare?

Srsly? So TTimo is going to test his Rage Linux builds in a VM?

You do realize the idea is as crazy as this game trailer out of Japan: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8BcndMxu44

[allquixotic]

I haven't been able to get vmwgfx to work since last September. It just refuses to enable 3d acceleration; all I can get is EXA. I get the old "Screen is not DRI capable", even using the latest from git on the latest workstation release.

No idea.

[RealNC]

Because other than nVidia users wanting to test Unity without dicking with their MBR, is there a use for it?

Uhm, Windows and Mac users running Linux inside VMWare? Developers testing their 3D software in many Linux Distros that they install inside VMWare?

[yogi_berra]

If it's that stable, why the heck is it still in staging?

Because other than nVidia users wanting to test Unity without dicking with their MBR, is there a use for it?