VirtualBox 6.0 Released With Better HiDPI Support, VMSVGA 3D Graphics On Linux

[phoronix]

Phoronix: VirtualBox 6.0 Released With Better HiDPI Support, VMSVGA 3D Graphics On Linux

Oracle VM VirtualBox 6.0 is now officially available as a big feature release to end out 2018...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Oracle-VirtualBox-6.0-Released

[BraindeadBZH]

I wish they would get rid of this crappy COM API.

[q2dg]

Well, still waiting... https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/13471

[teknoraver]

Worst hypervisor ever

[edwaleni]

Well, still waiting... https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/13471

Your ticket is out there open for 4 solid years, then....they ask;

"Anyone interested in contributing who has a bit of experience of how 3D works is welcome to contact us on the vbox-dev mailing list."

Kind of curious, what hypervisors do support Wayland?

[torsionbar28]

Worst hypervisor ever

Shrug, works perfectly for my various desktop vm use cases, I've been very happy with it.

[TemplarGR]

What i hate about it is extremely poor 3D performance. I don't know if there is a bug or not, but even though i enable Direct 3D support for Windows guests the performance is so slow, that even Football Manager 2019 2D user interface (not the match engine, just the interface) is a slide show. In Vmware it runs like a charm. Haven't tried Vbox 6.0 version, i hope this has been improved...

[kobblestown]

The feature list is underwhelming. It feels more like a minor update. And on Linux I use KVM anyway. However, it's pretty useful on Windows. I wish it had virtio-blk support though. I think that would improve performance quite a bit for Linux guests. As for 3D support - well, better not comment on that.

[mike456]

Is vmware 3d fast enough for x-plane in lowest settings?

[TemplarGR]

Is vmware 3d fast enough for x-plane in lowest settings?

Haven't tried. And what for? There is a native version.