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Hyper-V 3D Support

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Saphetiger

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I'm pretty sure I'm going to get flamed for this one and I've seen it come up at other places. Basically I'm a linux user. I'm kinda a sucker for the added functionality that compiz adds and am going to want to run gnome-shell when the upcoming gnome 3.0 release comes out.

That having been said, I'm also a gamer. I've been running windows on vmware workstation 7 for a few months now, and I'm very impressed. Even the 3d features work, and it can play some games. Though I'm a linux user myself, I work in a mostly windows envrionment, so it pays to keep on top of Microsoft's product line. For the most part this is what I need.

I've been running linux as the host os, and windows in the VM though in order to run some of my games I would like to switch this arrangement. Most of what I do on linux does not need drastic 3D acceleration, however, a lot of the software I use does benefit from it being available at some basic level.

Currently vmware workstation can provide 3d acceleration for windows, but not for linux guests. In order to use windows as my host os I would need to find a hypervisor that does this. I expect this feature to be available in future releases of vmware, but I was wondering if hyper-v might have it now.
 
The best cross platform visualization software i used is sun's virtualbox the it allowed me to do 3d stuff in ubuntu and solaris with a windows host and the best part is that its free go check it out
 
virtualbox is pretty good for a free type 2 hypervisor, and it does support openGL acceleration features.
 
i have not tried any 3d yet, but virtualbox blows everything else out of the water. sure VMWare has a great product, but its full fledge product is not free, meanwhile sun's is, and it's open source :)
it also supports 64bit guests which virtual pc does not
 
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