Comments on: Quick Test: VirtualBox 3.0 and OpenGL 2.0

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Mon, 08 Mar 2010 11:21:31 +0000

[...] to take advantage of the 3D acceleration in the guest, I also installed the Guest Additions. See my first test of VirtualBox 3.0 for more information and theory about [...]

By: Mars_999

Mars_999 — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 04:55:04 +0000

WOw I just installed this on my Mac mini 2009 and run WinXP on it as a guest. So far so good!

Now to code and check out the OpenGL support… So the OpenGL driver for VB comes from Sun and not Nvidia or ATI? or it uses the hosts driver’s capabilities?

THanks!!!

By: Christopher Price

Christopher Price — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 05:40:05 +0000

Government banned hypervising? Ha. That’s a good one. Neuromancer, it’s July, not April 1st. Ask anyone that uses Xen if the government has “banned” them.

By: Neuromancer360

Neuromancer360 — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:30:37 +0000

I have played with the vb as I have become a linux fan and migrated away from supporting anti-piracy. I think the reason your seeing lag issues is that programs like vb are running off the main hosts programming and not true independent o’s’s. so windows just registers this as running another application rather than an independent os. This is something the hyperthreaded pentium 4’s should and would take care of that the goverment unfortanetly pannicked and banned do to encryption concerns. :p. multitasking was entirely the right way to go with speed computing.

By: JeGX

JeGX — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 08:53:01 +0000

Hi Leonid and thanks for the tip.
I just tested it and it’s true: now the torus demo (with GLSL Phong shader) runs at 60 FPS (I didn’t find the way to disable vsync in virtualbox). I update the demo pack.

By: Leonid

Leonid — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 08:15:45 +0000

If you’d change torus demo to render torus geometry via an opengl display list it would give a huge (~30-40 times) fps increase.
glGenLists, glNewList…Send vetices..glEndList, and later glCallList when needed.
There’re some huge performance issues related to vertext processing in VBox code yet.

By: Mars_999

Mars_999 — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 22:21:22 +0000

Very neat software. I would like to know more!

Not sure I will get around to using it, but I definitely see the usefulness.