“A mysterious, anonymous video was leaked yesterday showing Windows 3D graphics acceleration running on VMWare for OS X. Watch the rather amateurish video for yourself, and ponder it in awe. Needless to say, the video and its implications generated a bit of buzz among virtualization and, more importantly, gaming fans yesterday,” Jacqui Cheng reports for Ars Technica. “Faked? Probably not. If the observations made by Regis ‘HPReg’ Duchesne on the VMWare blog are to be considered, it appears as if the video is in fact very real:”

Somebody managed to get a hand on an internal beta build of VMware Fusion whose UI offers a way to accelerate 3D graphics in virtual machines, and even made a video of some serious 3D gaming action in Fusion.

This video kind of caught us by surprise.[...]

The author of this video (a woman if the female voice-over is any indication?) is obviously a dedicated VMware and Mac zealot. While I wish we had done this video ourselves, given how well the video has been received so far, I can only say “Thank You.”

3D Graphics in VMware Fusion for Mac OS X:

Cheng reports, “Indeed. While the video isn’t exactly professionally-made, it seems to have certainly done its job of spreading the word that 3D graphics acceleration is on the way pretty soon from VMWare.”

Full article with more info and link to the video here.

VMWare’s claifiications here.

Related articles:
VMware updates Fusion Beta, releases public beta – December 22, 2006
VMware ‘Fusion’ beta released – virtualization for Mac OS X – November 03, 2006
VMware’s Desktop Virtualization for Mac codenamed ‘Fusion’ – October 17, 2006