While KVM may be very fast for Linux virtualization, one of
the areas where VMware and VirtualBox are superior is when it comes to
the ability to provide hardware-accelerated 2D/3D support to guest
virtual machines that ultimately is passed onto the host and its
graphics card / driver. In this benchmark is a look at the gaming
performance of Oracle's VM VirtualBox 4.1 when using their "Chromium"
driver to enable guest Linux OpenGL acceleration.
Read more at Phoronix.
VirtualBox 4.1 OpenGL 3D Guest Performance @ Phoronix
Posted on Tuesday, November 08 2011 @ 19:39 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck