Hardware accel for OpenGL in VMWare Fusion

[Michael Hartlef]

Hi folks,

VMWare Fusion on my IMac supports DirectX9 shader hardware acceleration. but no support for OpenGL right now. I stumbled over GLDirect today. It gives a pretty good performance with thinBasic TBGL and it is freeware now.

http://freewarelist.net/GLDirect.html

Cheers
Michael

[Petr Schreiber]

Hi Mike,

thanks for the news. I am not much experienced with virtual machines, I guess my single core processor is not the right powerbeast for this applications :)

It is nice creators of GLDirect allow to wrap the OpenGL in hardware accelerated way, and not "just" via software Mesa. They do this job since past century if I am not mistaken :)

In late time, there were some news VirtualBox enables 3D acceleration via OpenGL, so maybe also the way to go.

[Michael Hartlef]

Yes, VirtualBox has now experimental support for OpenGL and it is VERY fast. But no DirectX support. :-\