Good MVware That is good and supports 3D

[Mr Bigman]

I found that Virtualbox seems good haven't done alot with it yet except for some Ubuntu live sessions and some test with xp.

I looked for VMWare but they want money.

[LydianKnight]

I looked for VMWare but they want money.

Not necessarily true. You can use VMWare Player, and there's some webpages on the internet which can pre-generate your virtual machine config files, so you can essentially skip the money requirement.

At least, the only really noticeable feature I've ever seen from VMWare Player to VMWare Workstation is the ability to create your virtual machines inside VMWare itself, but... it's all a matter of choice.

About 3D support... what are you exactly planning on running on the VM?

[Mr Bigman]

and Got some old games like VP3 which don't work in Vista or 7.

Plus i use an erlier version of quickbooks that won't install in 7 and i may use Ubuntu with barrell.

[LydianKnight]

and Got some old games like VP3 which don't work in Vista or 7

VP3 = Virtual Pool 3?

If so, have you tried this page from the official Celeris website?

http://www.celeris.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1872

One thing you could try is right-click on the VP3 executable, select properties, click on the compatibility tab and tick 'Disable Desktop Compositor', for some old games it sometimes works, as some old games relies on a DirectX version lower or equal to DirectX9, it could surely 'assume' all video resources can be dedicated to the program, which is not true under DirectX 10/11, so... maybe it could help you.

About the accounting program, whops, no idea :P

Hope this helps ;)

Julio

[six_storm]

www.virtualbox.org

[Mr Bigman]

I am using vbox now but for some reason when capturing USB devices they don't get picked up in the machine itself and even with my G15 keyboards drops off on main setup and does get picked up inside the box.

And how is their a way to pick up a tv tuner in these things?

[Mr Bigman]

A problem im having now i installing older oses like 95 and 98 on this thing could be im using a core I7 with 12 gigs of ram and the vim has issues allowing the old schook stuff the work right.

[Mr Bigman]

No clue?

I wanna use an USB cam inside the virtualbox iwth 7 being the main setup and xp being the vmware.

[t3hl33td4rg0n]

So you want the host OS to be Seven and the guest OS to be XP?

All I've ever used was VMWare Workstation, which has worked with pretty much any Guest OS.

Also Beryl doesnt really exist anymore, it merged to Compiz-Fusion, now its just Compiz I think.

[Mr Bigman]

ah cool!!.

Easy way to get vmware workstation?

May give it a ride.

[ViN86]

Well you can get VMWare server for free, but the Workstation version costs money. Also, KDE4 > beryl.

To be honest bigman, if you want to play older games, the best solution is to take an old hard drive and install Win 98/2000/XP or w/e you need to it and boot that when you want to play those games. Virtual machines do an ok job, but native does the best.

[Mr Bigman]

I agree totally on that Vin86, i done that with an old Gateway and seems very good now and having much fun with it cuz i noticed alot of older games won't install cuz of 64 bit windows having the installer issues with old games not installling.

So KDE4 is beryl?

I thought you have to install that seperatelly in packet manager and with hardware drivers installed.

[ViN86]

I agree totally on that Vin86, i done that with an old Gateway and seems very good now and having much fun with it cuz i noticed alot of older games won't install cuz of 64 bit windows having the installer issues with old games not installling.

So KDE4 is beryl?

I thought you have to install that seperatelly in packet manager and with hardware drivers installed.

No beryl is not the same as KDE4, but KDE4 is better imo.

[Mr Bigman]

Ah cool, thanks vim.

Its best to use kde4 setup in linux on a standone rig?