Running XP, OS X AND Linux at the same time, on Linux!! :)

Stoned_SpaZZZ said:
and what did CS:S run like when running on virtual
windoze​
??
ill switch to Ubuntu completely if you could get it to run
properly​
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As said previously in this thread, all games will run cack through VirtualBox as it doesn't provide direct access to the hardware. The graphics adapter appears as "VirtualBoX graphics adapter". Whilst being superb at 2D tasks, it falls over at anything remotely 3D intensive.

Your only chances are Wine or Cedega. After having a brief look at both, these links might be of use to you:

http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?iAppId=871

http://games.cedega.com/gamesdb/games/view.mhtml?game_id=3524

Note, Wine is free, Cedega is not.

Good luck!
 
MikeHunt79 said:
Finally a quick question about this whole "virtualisation" thing... Would upgrading from my e4300 help at all? I know chips like the e6600 claim to have virtualisation, but I'm not sure how much difference this would make (if any)?
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It would improve performance but by how much I'm unsure.
 
Mr.Stu said:
as it doesn't provide direct access to the hardware. The graphics adapter appears as "VirtualBoX graphics adapter".
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Thats pretty much what I thought.:(


Im sure there was a tool that improved the poor hardware / software interface problem, made everything run a lot smoother, allowing for example windows to pretty much use its own drivers. Hardware would have its proper name although i dont think this works THAT well esp with things like 3d cards and on D3D games.

Sigh, why cant they just make the games compatible with linux, id used to make them compatible, many games have linux dedicated servers aswell.

guess this is a thing of the past withg vista being D3D only, *nothing* will be made in OpenGL.
 
I run XP, ubuntu and Os X on my pc, have done for over a year. OS X is sleek, but I feel linux is better once its been setup properly.

I have never run them virtually, I have several hard drives each with a different OS on it, avoids any danger of deleting any partitions accidently.

I must say my hackintosh partition runs faster than XP!
 
You need to read past the headline :p

"This License allows you to install and use one copy of the Mac OS X Server software (the "Mac OS X Server Software") on a single Apple-labeled computer."

"You may also Install and use other copies of Mac OS X Server Software on the same Apple-labeled computer, provided that you acquire an individual and valid license from Apple for each of these other copies of Mac OS X Server software."
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Server and apple computer being the key parts.

You won't be able get guidance here on how install OSX on x86 as its against the forums rules and will get the thread closed.
 
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Oops, I stopped getting notification of replies to this thread - I thought it'd died LOL Sorry. Yeah, as someone above said you can run virtual machines on Windows too. But what I meant was (and I'm sure a lot of folks here would think the same) is that once you load four OSs under Windows, it doesn't play too nice any more LOL

Linux carries on like nothing happened, whereas XP starts groaning under the strain and even crashing (OE refuses to load and the buttons start looking messed up for one). I tried it, on a clean fully updated install too - so it's not like it was an old fubared copy. Oh, and in Windows you've either got your VMs open, or you're in Windows. That is, VM runs as a windowed app and Windows is BEHIND it. You have to exit the VMs to get back to the host OS. With Linux you can (as I was showing) run all your OSs side by side on different virtual desktops, leaving them all running side by side for easy access. XP don't do that - neither does Vi$ta for that matter ;)

It was just a little fun that's all :D
 
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Rainmaker said:
Linux carries on like nothing happened, whereas XP starts groaning under the strain and even crashing (OE refuses to load and the buttons start looking messed up for one). I tried it, on a clean fully updated install too - so it's not like it was an old fubared copy. Oh, and in Windows you've either got your VMs open, or you're in Windows. That is, VM runs as a windowed app and Windows is BEHIND it. You have to exit the VMs to get back to the host OS. With Linux you can (as I was showing) run all your OSs side by side on different virtual desktops, leaving them all running side by side for easy access. XP don't do that - neither does Vi$ta for that matter ;)
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I'm not quite sure what your getting at here...

Regardless of the host os the host is always "behind" the VM. You don't have to exit the VMs to get back to the host. You can run an VM in Windows and OSX full screen and you can certainly run multiple VM's at the same time.

Yes in XP you can't do the virtual desktop thing but realistically I don't see how its different to having multiple VM's full screened then alt-tabbing between them. After all you can only physically work on one at a time.
 
andshrew said:
You need to read past the headline :p



Server and apple computer being the key parts.

You won't be able get guidance here on how install OSX on x86 as its against the forums rules and will get the thread closed.
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What they are allowing is people who are running OSX Server to run more copies of OSX Server in a Virtual Environment, such as VMWare Fusion, providing you buy additional licenses for OSX Server,

ie if you want to run 2 virtual instances then you buy 3 copies of OSX Server, 1 for the base OS and 2 for the virtual instances.

OSX or OSX Server on non-Apple Hardware is still a no-no.
 
mdjmcnally said:
What they are allowing is people who are running OSX Server to run more copies of OSX Server in a Virtual Environment, such as VMWare Fusion, providing you buy additional licenses for OSX Server,

ie if you want to run 2 virtual instances then you buy 3 copies of OSX Server, 1 for the base OS and 2 for the virtual instances.

OSX or OSX Server on non-Apple Hardware is still a no-no.
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Thats exactly what I was implying, maybe I didn't make it clear enough :p
 
Soon, Direct access to hardware may be possible using the ATI Radeon graphics card + open source drivers. Open source is very powerful!

Meaning gaming on a virtual machine!
 
Rich43 said:
Soon, Direct access to hardware may be possible using the ATI Radeon graphics card + open source drivers. Open source is very powerful!

Meaning gaming on a virtual machine!
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Provided it's an HD 2400 or 2600, the cards for which ATI/AMD have released documentation. We could have nifty stuff like that for every card if the lawyers would get out of the way and if the manufacturers would release documentation.
 
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