[ubuntu-uk] Adding a second hard drive

[Adam Bagnall]

Philip Stubbs wrote:
> 2009/3/11 Adam Bagnall <bagnaj97 at googlemail.com>:
>   
>> As neither sage nor office require 3d acceleration you could run windows
>> in a virtual machine using virtualbox. This would prevent any problems
>> with grub being overwritten and you wouldn't have to reboot to do the
>> windows work. The only caveat is that you need a fair bit of ram (enough
>> for both ubuntu and the windows vm) but that's pretty cheap these days.
>>     
>
> I was reading the other day that with a windows client inside
> virtualbox, 3d support is available. Not sure how complete it is, but
> worth checking out if that's important.
>
>   
The 3d support is still experimental and last time I tried it it was 
limited to common opengl functions only, however for the basic testing I 
did it worked fairly well. I'm hoping that now the basics are there the 
rest will come quickly but it's probably not that simple. Hopefully one 
day it'll be usable for gaming, then I can finally get rid of my windows 
partition.