VirtualBox, the Sun/Oracle virtualization platform, has
supported OpenGL acceleration and Direct3D acceleration within virtual
machines for more than two years. When the host system has hardware GPU
acceleration, OpenGL/Direct3D calls can be passed from the guest to the
host when the VirtualBox guest driver is installed. There has been the
Linux 3D support since VirtualBox 2.2 and was initially limited to
OpenGL 1.4 support and in the summer of 2009 it turned to OpenGL 2.0. We
had not delivered any early benchmarks as the initial support was too
buggy, but even with the recently released VirtualBox 4.0, while the
support is usable and stable for the most part, it is still far from
being very efficient and will crash under some OpenGL software.
Read more at Phoronix.
VirtualBox 4.0 OpenGL Acceleration Leaves Room For Improvement @
Posted on Friday, March 04 2011 @ 4:40 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck