3D Gaming demo in LivePC virtual machine
As you all know that we released Virtual Machine 3D Graphics Acceleration for preview a couple months back (see blog posting). We have integrated the 3D Graphics support in our latest LivePC Engine release and the moka5tools. You can now play any games on your Windows XP LivePC.
Here are a couple videos that show the games running inside the LivePC virtual machine:
Check out the videos and try out the new release with your games.
Hi Harley, Thanks for the
Submitted by Kelvin on May 4, 2007 - 9:56am.
Hi Harley,
Thanks for the comment. To answer your question on why anyone would want to run a 3D game in a VM on an already capable physical machine. I can think of a few reasons:
- A lot of the games are poorly written and I don't want them to pollute the installation on my physical machine. Also when the games crash (yes, they do crash!), they won't crash my physical machine.
- Similar to the previous point. Some games are not compatible with the host installation.
- This is a good way for game publishers to demo their games. Users don't need to install anything on their machine. Just start the LivePC and they can try out the games.
Are you currently using our bare-metal version of the LivePC engine? Any comments or suggestions?
Thanks,
Kelvin
Bare-metal version
Submitted by Harley Stagner on May 7, 2007 - 8:20am.
Hello Kelvin,
Thanks for the reply. Honestly, I haven't used the bare-metal version in a few months. If you could make the 3D-Acceleration work in a Windows VM on the bare-metal edition, that would be something to get excited about. I have given up PC gaming altogether because I prefer Ubuntu as my host OS.
As far as isolating the games (applications), Altiris SVS does a pretty good job at this. Currently, you just need to install a small SVS client on the machine. Then, publishers could distribute the games as SVS packages that could be downloaded and "activated." Something to think about.
Don't get me wrong, I love what you guys are doing. I would really love to see the bare-metal version mature a bit more. On demand Operating Systems on an appliance device? That would rock.
-Harley Stagner
http://www.harleystagner.com
Those videos are great...BUT....
Submitted by David Gualdro on July 2, 2007 - 1:48pm.
It's great to see that it works for 3D acceleration. I tried it with the PCLive library of Quake and is great..
BUT...
How did u do it?? im trying to use other 3D games but it's not working and is getting frozen.
It'd be great if u teach the way to do it. Im trying with Silkroad Online (www.silkroadonline.net) but it is displaying a pbloblem with Video. Thnx bye
Can this be accomplished on the baremetal edition?
I can see real value for Linux users who also happen to be gamers to finally rid themselves of a Windows Hardware machine. If this will eventually work on the baremetal edition then this is something really compelling. As it stands, why would I want to run a 3D game in a VM on an already capable physical machine (yes, I know you could carry your pc games with you, but who does that consistently)? Anyway, this looks really interesting and a step in the right direction. If this would work with Baremetal I would download it right away.
-Harley Stagner
http://www.harleystagner.com