Quake II under Virtual PC

re: Quake II under Virtual PC

SJ — Mon, 12 Sep 2005 04:59:51 GMT

Mike,

VPC currently does emulate a video card. Virtualizing the video card would use the host's video card.

VPC for Windows virtualizes the CPU, so a VM always has the same CPU as the physical machine.

VPC for Mac emulates a Pentium 2 CPU, since there is no x86 CPU to virtualize.

re: Quake II under Virtual PC

mike — Sat, 10 Sep 2005 07:04:39 GMT

That's a good point. I wonder who would provide the video BIOS though. I also wonder the possible hardware requirements on the host computer. [For emulation of a particular video chip itself.] [Unless you could somehow use the physcial card in the machine, much like the CPU itself.]

re: Quake II under Virtual PC

Richard — Fri, 09 Sep 2005 12:45:05 GMT

You know what would be really cool: virtualising the GPU as well as the CPU.

Apart from making it possible to play 3D-accelerated games on Virtual PC - a worthwhile goal in itself - it's also going to be pretty close to essential if Windows Vista is going to run inside a virtual machine at a decent speed. Aero Glass pretty much requires 3D acceleration, doesn't it?