Idea about XP 3D support in VirtualBox 7.2.x

[The-Solutor]

I read some discussion about this argument where @JHRobotics blamed the lack of proper drivers to support XP.

But now I repeated a test, that I did years ago (and failed with a BSOD), I set the XP machine in Vbox 7.2.0 as VMSVGA.

Then I grabbed the VGA drivers from the VMware tools and I installed them in the VM. And it (kinda) worked.

No BSOD and the 3D test button is even not grayed out. Then the test fails but is a big jump over older versions that simply got a BSOD.

For the record the above is with V9 VGA, V10 doesn't BSOD either and doesn't hang the machine but lead to black screen.

Now I'm not a coder, but I think that really little is missing, some dll that "connects the dots" properly, given the VMware driver clearly works well in VMware, and VBox provides enough level of emulation to get Linux VMs working correctly.

So I'm curious to hear what @JHRobotics thinks about the above.

P.S. I have not yet tested Vbox 7.1.x and 7.0.x, but I guess there are a good chances that they works as well.

[Burinis]

That would be nice) I'm waiting too)

[Mungr3ss]

we seriously need a decent vGPU for XP/Vista/7 on a virtual machine. 95/98/ME are just too unstable and don't run well on QEMU, whether on Windows or Linux. ME crashes QEMU + WHPX. TCG sucks and is too slow.

i tried to install softgpu on qemu 3dfx and it crashed after rebooting after installation and wouldn't boot anymore.

best option is to play old games on current windows with dosbox / wrappers and fixes.

[ariahirose64]

add 2000 to that list a ton of people used it because they wanted to not downgrade from me and is basically winxp rtm but with the classic shell. i would also argue that straight hyperv on windows would be a target since 2000 and uphave proper mouse and keyboard drivers in hyper v gen 1