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Most virtual machines suck when it comes to hardware acceleration.

I have tried microsoft virtual machine (easiest to use but has little to no hardware acceleration)

I have also tried virtual box and vm ware.

Is there anything better that provides enough hardware acceleration to support some small games.

I am pretty much at my limit for booting multiple OS's, but when family and friends visit, they will often use my computer and I don't want to risk getting infected. I keep all other OS partitions hidden and when people come over, I simply add a virtual machine drive as a startup item.

For support, I am pretty much looking for something that will at least support the hardware acceleration features that may be available to a system running a geforce 2 or other old videocard like that.

PS don't want to use steady state a it has a major performance overhead and is not easy to cleanly remove.

asked Jun 21 '10 at 19:09

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I've never come across a virtual machine with hardware acceleration, I think I tried this like a year ago, things have obviously changed, but I had no luck finding anything back then. Good luck to you though!

answered Jun 22 '10 at 12:01

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