[Cialug] update

[Matt Stanton]

The main advantage I would see in running Win7 as the host OS is that a 
lot of these VM platforms do not support DirectX for the guest OS (or at 
least not a reasonably recent version of it).  So, if the reason you 
have Win7 running is because you like to crack out on 3d gaming, it 
would probably be easier to use Win7 as the host OS.

Parallels 5 now supports DirectX 9.0c and 9Ex, which is pretty much the 
highest level of DirectX most games use, though Vista added support for 
DX10, and 7 supposedly adds support for DX11.  As for VMware and 
VirtualBox, I haven't looked to see where their DirectX support is.


Todd Walton wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 7:07 AM, Dave Hala Jr <dave at 58ghz.net> wrote:
>   
>> I'm considering running Windows 7 as the base OS.
>>     
>
> What makes you consider this?
>
> --
> Todd
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