[X3D-Public] Vivaty and Octaga on Windows XP on Virtual Box 3.0.2 on Mac OS X Intel-32 bit...success

[John Carlson]

Octaga didn't do any better, except not crash as much.  Was left in  
loading mode.

Conclusion:  VirtualBox 3D acceleration is still experimental, but can  
do some basic stuff.

John
On Jul 31, 2009, at 1:02 PM, John Carlson wrote:

> More testing with vivaty player and virtual box 3.0.2 running on a  
> mac os x host and windows xp guest.
>
> When just running the player, this URI worked:
>
> http://coderextreme.net/x3d/pp2.x3d
>
> When running from inside IE, it crashed windows xp.
>
> When running the player, these files either didn't show, or crashed  
> vivaty (windows stayed active):
>
> http://coderextreme.net/x3d/flowers.x3d
> http://coderextreme.net/x3d/flowers2.x3d
> http://coderextreme.net/x3d/flowers3.x3d
>
> Obviously VirtualBox is experimental, plus I my x3d might have bugs.
>
> John
> On Jul 31, 2009, at 12:15 AM, John Carlson wrote:
>
>> And then I got the disappearing window of death (DWOD).  Now Vivaty  
>> isn't working :(.
>>
>> John
>> On Jul 30, 2009, at 11:58 PM, John Carlson wrote:
>>
>>> After my not so successful try at running Vivaty on VMWare Fusion,  
>>> I wasn't so sure about a Virtual Box, but version 3.0.2 shines  
>>> running Windows XP running Vivaty.  You have to realize that to  
>>> run the guest additions (including directx) you need to run the  
>>> installer on the mounted ISO.  That had me stumped for a while  
>>> until I noticed it was mounted as the CD/DVD drive.
>>>
>>> Great work, Sun Microsystems and Vivaty.  Onto native support on  
>>> MacOSX!
>>>
>>> Congrats!
>>>
>>> John
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