Why use a virtual machine?

[Lindsay Mathieson]

On Sun, 30 Nov 2008 08:11:26 pm Steve Lamb wrote:
> nepal wrote:
> > When I looked into this I understand that the reverse is not
> > so good, i.e. running a VM inside Linux of a Windows system
> > because there is no support for 3d acceleration in VM. That
> > is exactly what I want to do, play 2 old win 95 games
> > inside a VM. Am I mistaken?
>
>     Correct.  That is why I am native in WinXP for gaming but VM the Linux
> box.  I don't game often in Linux and don't need 3D in Linux (no compiz).
> Since all of the applications I use run perfectly fine in the VM I don't
> mind this solution.

Last time I browsed the VirtualBox forums I noticed that sun are planning 3D 
accelerated virtual hardware support for VB, which would be very cool. No time 
scale though.



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