Today's GNOME3 funny

[Misha Shnurapet]

30.05.2011, 18:54, "Marko Vojinovic" <vvmarko at gmail.com>:
> On Monday 30 May 2011 08:20:40 Misha Shnurapet wrote:
>
>>  VMs don't have a working 3D support. I don't know why you keep trying.
>
> VirtualBox offers 3D support for the client system, up to the available
> capabilities of the host system. This means that if you have good 3D video
> accelerated drivers on your host system, you can make use of it from within
> the client as well.
>
> I remember seeing similar 3D support in VMware as well, last time I used it.
> Don't know about KVM, QEMU, Xen, and others.
>
> The 3D support is often labelled as experimental, not quite perfect in all
> circumstances, but in general it does work. For example, I have a WinXP client
> under VirtualBox on a F14 host. With the Fedora-provided open source 3D
> drivers for my Intel graphics hardware, I am able to run and play Quake3 on
> the WinXP guest. It works as fast as the linux version running natively on
> F14.
>
> That said, I remember that one needs to jump through hoops to enable it, at
> least on VirtualBox. It isn't enabled by default (there is a checkbox in the
> graphics settings that needs to be ticked), and the VBox-provided drivers for
> the WinXP client need to be installed when the client is in safe-mode, if they
> are to work. Or something like that, I don't remember exactly. But once this
> is done, 3D video generally works in the client, most games work well, etc.

Agreed. It would mostly work.

> I am almost tempted to install F15 as a client, just to see all that fuss
> about Gnome3 (and being a long-term KDE user, have a good laugh as well ;-) ).
> I probably won't have time for that, however...

I have been using GNOME 3 on two different devices I own. There is no base for all that fuss really. :-)

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