Steve Gaul wrote: > I'm new to this list and apologize if this has been discussed already as > I have not had the time to read thru all the archives.
There's been a lot of talking about 3D - some mails constructive, some people couldn't imagine how difficult the problem is. > I have had conversations in the past with the product manager for vbox > and we discussed the possibility for future versions of vbox to be able > to use the graphics card of the host system. Remember, this is a public mailing list, so I can't go into extreme detail. > Our target setup is a Sun U45 with Dual Nvidia Quadro cards, target app > is google earth in OpenGL mode. > Host: Solaris 10 U5 with Trusted Extensions, Guest: Windows XP Pro Your environment is quite unusual - extremely high performance hardware, and presumably the target app desperately needs each and every bit of it. Hard to tell if this can be fulfilled in a VM context, and what other prerequisites will have to be met. > Was wondering if this capability is/will be in future builds? If so, > any limitations to graphics cards? 3D support is in the works, but as this is a quite complex problem it's hard to say when it's ready. Talk to the managers here if you want to be kept up to date. > Lastly, if the host is Solaris and the guest is Windows XP, will we need > to install additional OpenGL libs? You won't be able to use the Nvidia drivers in the guest, that's pretty clear. Many other aspects need to be determined. > Any answers or comments are much appreciated. Hope this helps. Klaus _______________________________________________ vbox-dev mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev
