Now only a good Direct3d to OpenGL converter is needed, like Wine has, and you can play UT3 Windows under your VirtualBox running in Linux host.
Great job done by Sun!
I have just tested it with Warcraft 3 TFT (OGL mode) on Windows XP 32-Bit running in VirtualBox 2.1 on Ubuntu 8.10. It has some minor graphical glitches but it works amazingly well.
Yes! I've been waiting for this moment for more than two years. I can finally put my windows partition to rest (I used it only to test my opengl programs).
Way to go, VirtualBox! You rock!
OpenGL acceleration.. How? Can they expose graphics hardware to a virtual machine? Really?
Would be nice to see if this even works. I tried vmware, and it failed horribly for when I needed it. Such a pita to setup and I was getting 5fps.
If directx support comes as well, than gamers won't need to set up a dual-boot anymore! Just a windows xp VM would be enough!
What a fantastic X-mas gift!
Ok, so you can play Windows-games without rebooting into a seperate windows-partition... but that's about it.
You still need a Windows-install and thus a Windows-licence (if you want to stay on the legal side). And I fear game-developers might be even less intrigued to do linux-ports, since hey, they can play it on a vm just as well.