VirtualBox 4.0 OpenGL Acceleration Leaves Room For Improvement

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Title: VirtualBox 4.0 OpenGL Acceleration Leaves Room For Improvement ( -at -)

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Direct Link: http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=15743

Summary: "VirtualBox, the Sun/Oracle virtualization platform, has

supported OpenGL acceleration and Direct3D acceleration within virtual

machines for more than two years. When the host system has hardware GPU

acceleration, OpenGL/Direct3D calls can be passed from the guest to the

host when the VirtualBox guest driver is installed. There has been the

Linux 3D support since VirtualBox 2.2 and was initially limited to

OpenGL 1.4 support and in the summer of 2009 it turned to OpenGL 2.0. We

had not delivered any early benchmarks as the initial support was too

buggy, but even with the recently released VirtualBox 4.0, while the

support is usable and stable for the most part, it is still far from

being very efficient and will crash under some OpenGL software."

 

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