Guys, the Virtualbox 3 Beta has experimental DirectX9 support. I have Football Manager 2009 running OK on Windows XP SP2 in this version.
You must download and install Virtualbox 3 Beta from here:
http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=18820
Then you MUST install Guest Additions for this version, and make sure you tick the box to enable DirectX support.
I downloaded and installed the DirectX SDK from Microsoft. Run dxdiag and do the Display tests, DX 7 & 8 failed for me, but the DX 9 one worked perfectly fine.
I copied my FM folder from my Windows install, and did telephone activation, although I see no reason why Steam/the DVD version wouldn't work.
Then run fm.exe. It didn't work in windowed mode for me, and occasionally crashes out on loading. If it does crash, reboot the VM, and load again, this seems to work.
Issues are that you can't view the match in 3D, I just get a black field with the player names, the 2D view works fine however.
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