“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
Microsuck = p0wn3d
What will the last holdouts use to hang their hats on now?
Call it iNDirectX for OS X?
You made your point! The video could be shorter. Does the are interface work. I did not watch it all forgive me but 20 minutes of boring clips are not my idea of fun
That is does the Aero interface work on VMWare?
VMWare doesn’t require installation of Windows. Sweet.
vmwares official stance on the video…..
http://blogs.vmware.com/vmtn/2007/02/clarifying_the_.html
“VMWare doesn’t require installation of Windows. Sweet.”
yes, it does
What is that song in the background!? It’s so hot!…
While a great step, how about we lobby more game developers to follow Blizzard’s fine example and release games natively for the Mac?
Is this going to compete with Parallels, or be an adjunct for additional capabilities?
it is a stand alone competiter to parallels, with a LOT of experience behind virtualisation
This does run smooth, but Im betting this is a Mac Pro. Which means Monster Processors and Monster Video Card. Id like to see this on an iMac. or Macbook pro.
VMware is going to compete with Parallels like the iPod competes with, well, all the rest of the players.
Parallels was first out of the gate, but VMWare is the 800 pound gorilla of the field. (A very nimble 800 pound gorilla at that, to come up with an official response to this so quickly.)
Parallels main advantage is that they have a public head start(VMWare’s probably been working on this since Apple announced an Intel Mac…undoubtedly they were some of the first to line up for those development boxes.)
It may, in the end, though, look like a road race between a Model T and an F-16…the Model T can get a long way ahead and still lose the race…
A LOT of people are waiting for the VMWare Mac product to come out; when it does I predict a big surge in MacPro purchases…VMware is well supported and has a huge presence in enterprise computing.
People aren’t going to pay a huge amount extra for something that does the same job. VMware costs a shitload, Parallels doesn’t.
As far as I know, Parallels doesn’t support 3d graphics acceleration, thus the extra cost.
oooh directx 8.1… now you can play 5yr old pc games…
ummm…
who cares…
if you wanna play games use bootcamp you muppets…