Discussion about "Summary of Most Requested Features"

[Technologov]

USB 3.0 ? For what ?

Only use case I can see for this is for fast USB hard disks, which can be done via shared folders. Which is important, but not top (as very few people asked for USB 3.0)

[twipley]

Here are two features which lots of people I know using VMs have encountered or are encountering (although mostly related to gaming):

1) https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/7822 or https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/10852 (two different methods of keeping original aspect ratio);

2) https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/8233 (the case of the disappearing mouse upon disabling mouse integration);

[Amol1110011]

I dont think you can use hardware graphics cards for VMs in VirtualBox unless the host machine is Linux. Even if you could, you need Vt-D enabled, and the GPU Card must also support IO passthru to be used on a VM. Unfortunately Nvidia does not support IO passthru for GeForce graphics cards, which his what a majority of people have when it comes to Graphics cards. https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/f ... -screens/
If you read the Virtual box hand book or documentation it explicitly states Vt-D is only supported by VirtualBox on Linux hosts only. https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch09. ... assthrough
On other hosts the LLVM-pipe is used aka CPU rendering.

If you want to use pass thru graphics, and had a linux host, you will have to use integrated graphics or use a Nvidia Graphics card that supports passthru, which according to Nvidia they only support this on Quadro and Tesla, brand variant GPU's, but even then Virtual Box is not supported and you would have to use another VM platform for the support, as Nvidia even then does not support Virtual box. They only support Citrix XenServer, VMware vSphere, and Parallels Workstation Extreme. You also must have two of these grphics cards on the system as well. Check in the following link of the most recent Quadro Release notes for more info about this, starting from (Chapter 2 or Page 11) Pdf viewer may call it page 15 or 16. http://us.download.nvidia.com/Windows/Q ... -notes.pdf

[Amol1110011]

4. PCI passthrough aka Intel VT-d/AMD IOMMU -- Wish #5252

• Even if this was done 95% or more of the users will not have the required processor.

I know its been years......... but i think its the inverse now, 95% have processors that support it. However, the new issue is that 55% or more people dont own tesla or Quadro graphics cards that support PCI Passthu.

[socratis]

This topic has long been dead. It's time to lock it and un-stick it...