Running AO in virtual machine?

[VerticalRod]

Is this possible, if so, which VM you guys use?

[Aristona37]

Virtual machines are standalone OS installations, hence, anything that works on your personal computer is going to work in VM if you configure things well.

[summoner01]

Actually, the Virtual Machine allows you to install an additional OS side by side your current OS, and "attempts" to emulate everything a real OS could do.

It does not always work however, because certain things are not currently supported by the Virtual Machine, so it can't be emulated properly.

For instance, I'm trying to run an Online game as well with a VM ( Virtual Machine ), but it does not run the game because it can't emulate my graphics card to process the video. This is because, from what I've read, in order for the VM to access your graphics hardware, it has to support VT-d ( Virtualization Technology for Directed I/O ), which as far as I know, no VM supports this.

Currently I'm reading up more on it to try and figure it out because I found a thread on another forum with a guy that says he was able to get some Online games to run on a VM.

This Thread here:

[neuronet]

VMWare in the actual version has direct X support even the free VMWare Player

[summoner01]

Hmm, I read a lot of posts and threads about it not being able to process 3d. But maybe they were old threads.. I didn't check. Gonna download VMware now and try it out. I've used this program before, but it was years ago when I had no idea how to use them.

[neuronet]

I user VMWare myself to run my bots parallel... working fine for me... onliest thing is it's bit graphic lag if you don't have really good basic hardware

[summoner01]

Yea hardware isn't an issue.

i7-3930k @ 4.2 GHZ
32 GB G.Skill RAM
2x GTX 690

As an update, I did get my game to run. It looks crappy as hell, but all I needed was the ability to connect to the game, so I can do like you mentioned, bots parallel. Now I'll be able to multibox like crazy on this game, Rose Online, with my autoit scripts.

Thanks for the help

Solution:

1. Install VMware
2. Load Windows XP SP3 OS
3. Install .net Framework 3.5
4. Install My Game
5. Install VM Tools on the Host/Guest
6. Wala! Everything runs.

[kaitox]

Been using VMware for well over a year. Only problem I have is when trying to turn the camera is gets... extremely sensitive and spins like a top on meth.

[neuronet]

There is somewhere a setting.. if you "lock" the mouse to the VM then it acts normal...

[summoner01]

Well for the mouse, I know in Virtualbox you had to turn off Mouse Integration. Maybe there is a similar setting in VMware somewhere.

[neuronet]

in Settings should be a tab like this to change the mouse behaviour:

[danielsan73]

Actually working on Virtualbox and VWware whit micro WinXP release but performance is not very good, because mouse control is so crazy sensible, and loadings is very long.
But if u need only menage market or still in autocraft you can do it well.
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