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Is this possible? I just got Ubunto to go under VMware and tried to run some demos with no joy - anyone know if is this possible?

I'm not a linux or VMware expert and I can't install outside a virtual machine since this is my work pc.

Afaik VMWare doesn't support any kind of 3D acceleration. You might have some luck with software rendered demos.

VMware has unofficial support up to DirectX 9, if the host system supports it as well. You cannot configure it through the front end but the User's manual PDF explains how to enable DirectX support.

i've run some old windows demo into virtualbox. not acceleration, but twas not that bad fpswise...

(ran even)

Right the first time :)

"I ran", "I've run".

I was really after watching some linux demos - all I have access to here is VMware running under Windows. Looking at the VMware forums and some other stuff and I see it has limited support for Direct3D though its still experimental.

Would be nice if it could allow you to select whatever 3D acceleration API on the host to virtualise whatever API running on the guest machine.

just boot ubuntu from a live-cd and try to run it there?

why bother

I could try that - I'm a lowly coder so don't have /god privileges to do as I please to the office network. I wanted to able to switch screens to something that looks like work should anyone that matters walks past too.

well, if you keep watching demos at work you'll never get those god priviledges!

i've run the windows port of fulcum/matrix on vmware on mac and it worked great.

fulcum is software rendering ...