How about playing a virtual machine? My experience summary

My host is the ASUS notebook i7-2670qm quad-core eight-thread processor, HD6730 graphics card, 4GB RAM, Intel 330 120GB solid state drive (SSD), pre-installed windows7-64bit Ultimate operating system, because of compatibility issues Installed linux, virtual machine is vmware-workstation 9.0 genuine, win7-32 ​​bit flagship version, allocated 6 cores, open graphics acceleration, memory 2GB, I did not see the option to adjust the size of the memory.

I installed League of Legends LOL and Torchlight 2 in the virtual machine. The full-height special effects are running. The feel is similar to that of the real machine. When there is basically no card, the loading is a bit slow, because it is not installed on the real machine. There is no comparison. So summarize as follows:

Q: Is it feasible to play games in a virtual machine? A: It's completely feasible.

Q: What are the hardware requirements for playing games in virtual machines? A: Keep in mind that virtual machines usually only have half or less of the host's performance, so the stronger the host, the better the performance of the virtual machine (without limiting resources). If your host can't play this game, then the virtual machine must not. To play the game, the performance of the cpu is almost no requirement, and the requirements for the graphics card are the largest. So I bought a very strong notebook cpu, from the results point of view on the virtual machine - the game is not good, although hd6730 is also a good graphics card, the memory is as high as 2gb, but the position of the four-core mobile version i7 in the cpu It is impossible to compare. Therefore, to achieve this goal, the desktop DIY machine is better, the brand machine is almost very weak, it is expensive to buy a model with a good graphics card.

To ask where the biggest short board of the virtual machine is, I think it is a hard disk. When I used my Western Digital Green Disk to run a virtual machine, it took half an hour or more to copy 1GB of data from the virtual machine to the host. So now I only run the virtual machine on ssd, copying at least 100MB/s, basically qualified. Originally I assigned the cpu, the graphics card is not very weak, but the card does not stop, I think it is caused by the hard disk, to run the virtual machine, at least there must be ssd acceleration level.

Q: What are the requirements for virtual software? A: I don't understand this myself, but it is said that VMware's 3d performance is much better than virtualbox. Vmware 9.0 especially enhances 3d performance, so you can think of it as the current trump card. Others such as kvm may not have 3d acceleration at all. But the strongest solution is not vmware, but Xen, because Xen can directly assign the graphics card to the virtual machine, let the virtual machine directly touch the graphics card, instead of the virtual graphics virtualized by the virtual software, so that it can play nearly 100% performance. . In addition, Xen itself can be regarded as an operating system. It does not need to enter any system after startup but starts Xen. This is different from vmware running under Windows, so it is easy to maximize performance. I have seen people on Youtube using Xen to start 2 windows at the same time and on 2 monitors to call the call of duty, it is very gorgeous. But configuring Xen, especially the graphics card, requires a lot of virtualization expertise, and a single graphics card is obviously not working. I will work hard in this direction if I have money in the future. . .

Another: Virtualbox is free software, and VMware is a paid product of WMware. Xen is a project initiated by Oxford or Cambridge, free

Q: What are the requirements for the host system A: In theory, Linux and Windows are all ok. And Linux may be better because it takes less resources, but in view of the graphics card driver that can only be described by Linux, it is clear that ordinary virtual windows are better.

Q: What are the requirements for virtual machine systems? : I have not realized it myself, but it is said that vmware does not support XP 3D hardware acceleration in virtual machines. Since XP is too old, it is reasonable to match with today's virtualization software, so it is loaded with win7, but given the volume of win7. Larger, 32-bit in 17GB, 64-bit up to 30GB, occupying resources is also rising, I realize that xP can run smoothly on ordinary mechanical hard disk, win7 is stuck, so ssd at least ssd acceleration is necessary.

Q: What are the requirements for the game software? A: I really miss the era when the computer room (not the Internet cafe) was just beginning to pop. At that time, I played StarCraft 1, Cao Cao Chuan, Red Police 95, never worried about the configuration. The problem, but now everything is different (finished, exposed age.) You have to pay attention to the new game, and the configuration requirements are very high, such as Devil May Cry, due to lack of performance, certainly can not run in the virtual machine . And because my experience with virtual machines is that virtual machines generally have insufficient support for older technologies such as DX 7, so if a game is too old and uses 3d acceleration such as DX 7, then its performance is at least not full screen, so 憋Bend in a small area in the middle of the screen. Such games include heroes invincible 3 years ago, even 10 years ago, Jagged Alliance 2, etc. (Tragedy.) If the game is old, but does not use DX acceleration, such as the text avg, is galgame. It has no effect.

So you should be relatively new in the virtual machine, but not very sensitive to the configuration. What is the good effect of the 3D effect? ​​After I changed the machine, I played World of Warcraft and started the full-height special effects. I hope that there will be different impacts. The result is that it is not the same as the clear one. Now the game is falling, just like the people nowadays. I am young and will play Jin Yong’s heroes. How good is the fairy sword. I played it a few years ago. Now the game is focused on the effect, and the gameplay is not good. It is.

Q: Is it necessary to play games in a virtual machine? A: At least I don't want to run any kind of garbage like Chinese version on my own machine. You can find out what they have done in the back.

Well, it’s almost like writing here. If you are also playing games on a virtual machine, there are some different opinions or insights on this article.