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VirtualBox, the Sun/Oracle virtualization platform, has supported OpenGL acceleration and Direct3D acceleration within virtual machines for more than two years. If the host system hardware GPU acceleration, OpenGL/Direct3D calls can be passed by the guest to the host at the VirtualBox guest driver is installed. It has the Linux 3D support VirtualBox 2.2 and it was at first limited to support OpenGL 1.4 - and in the summer of 2009 turned OpenGL 2.0. We had not all early benchmarks as was the initial support to buggy, but even with the recently released VirtualBox 4.0, and stable for the most part while the support is available, it is still far from very efficient and are delivered to crash under some OpenGL software.
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