For now only guests running Windows XP or Vista are supported so I am not going to bother with Windows98. I am currently trying out the 3D acceleration with XP installed in the Virtual Machine.

Ok, installed Windows XP Professional added the Virtual machine add-ons and this installs a mouse and a screen-driver among other things. I run dxdiag and see that 3D hardware acceleration is not available. But this is running Vista with Aero interface as the host. Now I am reverting to the Basic theme and see if the Virtual Box application will give me 3D hardware acceleration this way - check - nope.

I checked the user manual (page 66) and it says something about programs on the guest OS using OpenGL calls being passed on to the host GPU. So it may all only be working for OpenGL applications and not DirectX, D3D apps. The user manual is really sparse when it comes to this feature. Ah well, perhaps it is best to wait a little to see how it solidifies.

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