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X-less VirtualBox OSE

It’s possible now. Still in testing phase though but it’ll be surely interesting and there goes my final (non-experimental/fun) reason of staying with OpenSolaris. VNC is rather crappy but it’s much better than compiling/installing X just for that one program.
Compiling … Continue reading 

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VirtualBox 3.0 Released

Tell me if now you can play games under Linux/OpenSolaris/FreeBSD using VBox’s Direct3D.
And it now supports SMP. But only for processors supporting VT-x / AMD-V. Damn Intel.
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Latest VirtualBox: Prepare your solaris/nvidia system! (also extra ram and harddisk)

Or Linux system. Or another Windows.
Latest release has experimental support of OpenGL acceleration which is real nice. Now more jealousy to Mac OS X virtualization platform choice. I haven’t tested it personally (and most likely will wait for DirectX 9 … Continue reading 

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