[vbox-dev] DirectX support?

Jun Koi junkoi2004 at gmail.com
Thu Dec 18 09:44:01 GMT 2008


On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 5:37 PM, Frank Mehnert <Frank.Mehnert at sun.com> wrote:
> On Thursday 18 December 2008, Jun Koi wrote:
>> Could anybody inform us users the current progress of supporting
>> DirectX in VirtualBox?
>>
>> If I am not wrong, VirtualBox has a great chance to be the 1st VM
>> solution that supports DirectX?
>>
>> Cant wait to play D3D games in VB :-)
>
> This will still take time and we cannot give you any ETA. Some Windows
> games have an option like -opengl which forces the application to use
> OpenGL instead of DirectX.

How are you going to support DirectX for guests on Linux host? Will
you translate it to OpenGL using Wine, or you go another way?

Thanks,
Jun




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