ffxiv in virtualbox?

[Captaindownsyndrome]

has any one tried running this in virtualbox im linux man and i would love to be able to log in to do simple thing like craft or check my retaner with out having to boot into my window 7 partition for simple things like that.

[ronnyromero]

kind of same here, i have a 2011 macbook pro and a PS4. I installed virtual box yesterday and setup a Windows 7 64bit, dedicated 4 cores from the i5, 256MB VRAM and 5632MB RAM. Downloaded de the benchmark and directx 9 but it says it has directx 11 and there is no need for new install. But when i run the benchmark it says directx fatal error 10000000 which i am inclined to believe it is something related to the graphics card after reading some stuff on the net. Not sure if this is the thing or not.

I installed the extensions on virtualbox but nothing on the W7 install besides the windows updates.

[Wildsprite]

you need to install the directx end user runtimes from june2010 for DX9.0c which is absolutely required or your directx install will be missing files. however that does not mean virtualbox will run the game. I have heard of vmware running games like XIV and virtualbox running some games with limited success.
out of box windows 7 and windows 7sp1 do not include a good portion of the end user runtimes from that package
don't just search directx or directx 9. your typical directx 9 installer was not made to install on windows 7, it was made to install on windows xp and below
search for "directx end user runtimes june 2010"

[BreathlessTao]

Virtualising the video card is gonna be problematic, because it's not exactly a priority/purpose of such apps, as far as I know. VirtualBox, for example, can't even have more than 256MB memory dedicated to video, even with 3D acceleration enabled, and its Direct3D support (even for as much as Aero) is still experimental. You can install DirectX - the software, but you'll still be left with a generic VirtualBox Display Adapter, which won't be good for gaming. Meaning the CPU is gonna have to handle all the load, in a whole system that is operating entirely above the one handling your physical machine. Not saying it's impossible (from a hardware pov; DX support and operation is an entirely different matter), but you'll be needing a rather extremely overpowered rig to have a chance at complex 3D gaming in a virtualised environment. Especially if you don't want it to be a slideshow.

[Wildsprite]

vmware would work better, but it isn't free.

[Delsus]

Running games on a VM is usually problematic, because of how they work and how the hypervisor separates the guest and host systems., but there is a technology to get it to work called PCI passthrough.

I have looked it up on the virtualbox website and they do support it as a seperate extension.

Before you even start you need to find out if your computer will support passthrough You first need to check that your motherboard has an IOMMU (Input Output Memory Managment Unit) if not then it will not work, after that you need to enable IOMMU in the BIOS, again if there is no option it will not work. If you do support IOMMU then it might work.

https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch...pcipassthrough

[reiichi]

Emulators and Virtualizers likely won't work well for a 3D game, as stated above. If you've got a windows installation you could use to patch the game though, Wine is an option. Support goes up and down, but provided you've got a good graphics card, I have seen it run decently well.