On 9/18/07, Gilad Ben-Yossef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You can para-virtualize 3d acceleration but at this time this is more > academic then useful, so yes, turning off the 3D (or any visual effects > for that matter) produces a great performance boost. >
3D "virtualization" is already available in consumer products: http://www.parallels.com/en/products/desktop/features/3d/ http://www.vmware.com/products/fusion/features.html Those products apparently virtualize by providing stub DirectX and OpenGL implementations and forwarding them to the host machine. As such, they don't yet support DirectX 10 which is required for Vista's effects.
