Leeky
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Essentially you create a Virtual Machine (VM) profile, and set the resources you'd like it to have (e.g. multiple cores, GPU memory,. RAM, disks etc... You then create a VM disk (which essentially is a virtual disk sitting on the physical disk) and then boot into it with a CD to install Windows. You then install your genuine Windows software, activate it, and update it fully. You then have a fully working, completely genuine Virtual OS that can be used in exactly the same way as a real one, and resources willing, can do pretty much everything you please of it.
You can enable 3D in the VM, but the performance sadly will never be good enough for the more powerful games. In theory you can allocate the entire host resources to your guest OS, but it never works out that way really.
Still it works fine for pretty much every single task bar gaming - its also quicker to boot virtually, and software runs faster generally as well.
The reality of that is somewhat different though. Support is given to software more needy, or to software people are capable of sorting and wish too. Quite a lot of it will never be supported, and frankly isn't worth the time to even try too.
The better solution by far is to just move over to Linux completely, and find open source alternatives that do not require running through software like Wine, or Virtualbox. I like my games too much to do that, though I seem to be dropping my Microsoft purchased software in replacement for open source alternatives the more time passes.
Huh? I want what you're smoking! :haha:
You do realise that Linux powers roughly 3/4 of the worlds servers currently don't you? Your most likely reading this very forum off of a server powered by Linux.
Do not confuse the fact its free with its ability to perform.
