Idea #9721: add a new VT OS link - for gamers -

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Written by mitcoes the 10 Jun 08 at 12:17. Category: Gaming.
Related to: Nothing/Others. Status: New

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With KVM or Xen it is not easy to configure a new OS.
It should be a good idea to make a easy script to install virtualized Operating Systems.

For gamers wine is not enough.

But with gamers machines, the performance loose for using KVM (or XEN) virtualized, is similar to the gain of not have to put antivirus software.

Then a script that only asks you for a ISO or a CD/DVD for installation and generate after it a link that open that OS would be a great idea for gamers to migrate to Ubuntu.

As a marketing tool a installation with W98se, Xp and Vista, with a youtube video, and sysmarks tests native with antivirus and KVM VT without antivirus would be great.

This kind of installation would make gamers to prove opengel games natively under Linux, and they will choose it. Then more games would be provided natively for Linux.

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Auzy wrote on the 10 Jun 08 at 13:33

Why isn't wine enough for gamers? Thats the fastest way.. Maybe donate the money you would spend towards buying one game towards a donation towards wine to support the games you want

Asa.Ayers wrote on the 10 Jun 08 at 16:44

The problem with this idea right now is that a virtual machine has all virtual hardware including the graphics card. You can't run hardware accelerated games in a VM because the VM can't access you're hardware.

I don't now why wine isn't enough, I know many games still don't work with it, but its support is getting better, and its the game maker's responsibility to make sure their game works. Blizzard doesn't advertise Linux support, but WoW works great in wine.

Auzy wrote on the 11 Jun 08 at 01:50

Actually, Parallels has gotten 3D accelleration to work in parallels fusion. It doesn't work in all cases, but many it does.

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