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Yeah, and are you working on triple A game titles that require features that the emulated video hardware doesn't have? Of course not.Originally Posted by RealNC
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Why the heck does that even matter? People not working on multi-million dollar titles don't develop software and don't need VMs capable of accelerated OpenGL? People who run Windows or OS X shouldn't get accelerated graphics when they run Linux inside a VM? And last but not least, what the heck is your point?"I don't need it, therefore no one else does"?
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Are you purposefully being obtuse or just ignorant of how most VM's lack the functionality to do what suggest?Why the heck does that even matter? People not working on multi-million dollar titles don't develop software and don't need VMs capable of accelerated OpenGL? People who run Windows or OS X shouldn't get accelerated graphics when they run Linux inside a VM? And last but not least, what the heck is your point?
VMWare, VirtualBox, and QEMU do not provide access to the host's videocard, they emulate a low end card that no sane game developer is going to target. To be blunt: You're not going to test your game in an environment that will never support the features that it requires to run.
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Why are you stuck with game development? Why does it have to be only games that can use this? I could be developing a video player that uses OpenGL to render the video. Or even with games, I could be writing a 2D game that uses OpenGL textures. Or I could be writing a Compiz or KDE effect. Or I would like to see how my software behaves in a composited environment. Or, as I already mentioned, I am a Mac/Windows user who wants to use Linux in a VM and have a nice desktop experience with it.
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Oh, btw, I run Windows 7 in a VM under Linux, and I can run Direct3D games in it. Aero works too. Fusion on the Mac is quite popular because of this.
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