To use VM or not...

[davidmyers]

I'm about to setup a new gaming rig and I plan on using Ubuntu as the OS. I really would prefer not to ever have to bother with installing windows if I can help it. I am also to cheap to get cedega.
I was wondering if I would experience much of a performance hit if I were to use a VM to run Windows and then a video game inside of that? Or would it be better to use wine? I really don't want to have any issues with games not playing or have any glitches at all though. I want the games to work as well as they would in Windows.

I could always dual-boot Windows and Ubuntu, but I'd really rather not if I could get the same performance some other way.

Thanks for the help!

[howefield]

I could always dual-boot Windows and Ubuntu, but I'd really rather not if I could get the same performance some other way.

You have no chance, the above is your only realistic way.

Although 3D acceleration is experimental in Virtualbox right now, you won't get anything without a performance hit, not yet.

[davidmyers]

Really? Well, that kinda sucks. I was worried that trying to use a VM to do all of that would kill the performance. Do you think that wine would be a big hit in performance too?

[Dedoimedo]

Hello,
You'll get about 80% performance. As to 3D, you'll get some, for Windows guests, tutorial on the way :) wait 2-3 days.
Dedoimedo

[davidmyers]

I'll 80% on wine or a VM? The rest of that post confused me. I decided to check your site b/c you mentioned a tutorial and noticed that you had made a tutorial on VMs so I'm assuming that you're saying you're doing a tutorial on gaming through a VM?

[Dedoimedo]

Yup, I'll upload on wednesday and friday, so check it out ...
Dedoimedo