3D Acceleration in VMware Fusion (Video)

hhwong said:
VMWare is owned by EMC.
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Yes, but EMC announced yesterday they will be taking 10% of VMware to the public markets by early summer. VMware will use their IPO proceeds to "unlock EMC shareholder value, strengthen retention and recruitment, and support their open platform strategy". This is where my comment comes from...
 
simplicity said:
Looking at the demo, one screen said DirectX 8.1. That's all well and good, but how about DX10 for glass support?
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That's simply the first screen that pops up when you run 3DMark2001SE, IIRC. It does NOT indicate what actual DirectX capability is available within the virtual machine.

Also, I should note that the default 'fancy' theme in Vista is now simply called 'Aero', not 'Aero Glass'.
 
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dkp said:
Let's say that you take a snapshot of your vm and then install a new application or game that turns out to be crap and even when you uninstall it, it leaves annoying remnants in your registry. You bring your snapshot forward and every change made since that snapshot goes away. It's like a live backup, but smaller.
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The snapshot feature in VMWare is more sophisticated than that. What you are talking about is UNDO disks which is in both VPC and VMWare (and hopefully in a future release of Parallels.) Snapshot allows a capture of a running machine. VMWare also has the ability to transfer a running machine from one server to the next without shutting down.

It's really neat but not really practical for a consumer product. I'll be happy with UNDO disks.
 
wesley said:
That's simply the first screen that pops up when you run 3DMark2001SE, IIRC. It does NOT indicate what actual DirectX capability is available within the virtual machine.

Also, I should note that the default 'fancy' theme in Vista is now simply called 'Aero', not 'Aero Glass'.
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Thanks for the note. I'm glad you were able to understand what my primitive mind was trying to express.

:)
 
OOOooooo, 3D graphics - I got to get me one of those .... :) Way to go. I am tempted ... but I'll wait for Parallels. That is the last piece of majpr functionality for me.
 
simplicity said:
It's really neat but not really practical for a consumer product. I'll be happy with UNDO disks.
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Which is why I didn't bring it up. I would use it, though. So it is my mistake and that it cannot undo changes?
 
Perhaps I am the one in the wrong. I thought the snapshot functionality was strictly for moving a running virtual machine between servers, whereas the undo functionality was for the undoing of changes?

Oh well, either way I do hope we get something similar in Parallels..
 
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