Message from @Towelie
Discord ID: 271739312863707137
or Xen, whatever you like
oh, forgot to mention that, it's also really useful to tweak your drivers since you can access your PCI device directly too
without direct I/O (VT-d or AMD I/O VT), you can only use software acceleration and the perfomances are pretty poor, whatever your hardware
alright proffesseur, je ne suis pas comprehends
too much info
it's like teaching a 9 year old about quantum physics
and I fucked up that french
I just remembered
to keep it simple, without direct I/O technology, your VM software emulate a graphic card and the perfomances are shitty. Don't even expect to run something 15y old at decent FPS
with direct I/O, your VM software can access and use your hardware directly inside the guest. That makes you able to use you super uber graphic card in your VM
it's not that you have to dumb it down for me, it's just that I'm only about 1/2 awake rn
I appreciate it tho
lol
well, I don't know your computer system knowledge
and it might help some other people to understand a bit anyway, so I had to try 😄
reading that back, the only thing I don't know what it is is VT
I assume it's a kind of VM
but as I said, if you're actual knowledge for VM use is simply use VirtualBox or VMware GUI, don't even bother buying stuff that support this technology, you won't be able to use it
VT-d is a techology, it has to be supported directly by your CPU and your motherboard
it makes you able to assignate your devices to a VM
I have a bunch of games that only run on Windows XP, I tried running them on MS's official XP VM and they didn't work. Do you think you would know why? would I need any of these technologies?
probably yes
your VM support only software acceleration, so shitty 3D at 3FPS at most
it's not that they didn't run fast enough, they didn't even boot up
I just got error messages
yup, no directx, opengl, etc
oh, that makes sense
since it's just a software "graphic card"
what did you use ? Virtualbox or something like that ?
like I said, ms's offical VM
I don't know if they still have it up, it was quite hard to find on their website
yeah, on which software tho ? VMware, Virtualbox, Parallels, Virtual PC, etc ?
oh, it was something made by microsoft directly ?
yes
not just a virtual disc with windows on it
okay okay
They made it available during the vista/7 period
well, you should be able to play them on linux with WINE though
not from a VM, but if you dualboot
yeah, I understand