Errors in windows 7 virtual box

[Asutton]

Hello,

 

I recently installed Virtual Box (Oracle) on my mac and installed windows 7 hoping to run Watchout offline. When I start up Watchout I get this error: Facility 34934.

 

Any thoughts greatly appreciated.

[Jonas Dannert]

Sorry,

 

but we're not verifying WATCHOUT on Virtual Box.

Most likely their DirectX/Direct3D support is not there.

 

Please use VMware Fusion or Parallells Desktop on a Mac instead, if needing a virtual solution.

 

/jonas

[cowboyclint]

From the Manual pg.229

 

14 Known limitations

14.1 Experimental Features

Some VirtualBox features are labeled as experimental. Such features are provided on an “as-is”

basis and are not formally supported. However, feedback and suggestions about such features

are welcome. A comprehensive list of experimental features follows:

WDDM Direct3D video driver for Windows guests

Hardware 3D acceleration support for Windows, Linux, and Solaris guests

Hardware 2D video playback acceleration support for Windows guests

PCI pass-through (Linux hosts only)

Mac OS X guests (Mac hosts only)

ICH9 chipset emulation

EFI firmware

Host CD/DVD drive pass-through

Support of iSCSI via internal networking

Synthetic CPU reporting

[Mike Fahl]

VirtualBox is great for server applications (which is what Oracle intended it for, I guess), but does not support the kind of graphics APIs used by WATCHOUT. Fusio and Parallels are far better here (but not free).

 

Mike