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Hi there,

At the first i will resume the technical specifications of the environment Im using for run VirtualBox:

Workstation Fujitsu Celsius R670-2:
- 2 Cpus Intel Xeon e5645 6 Cores 2.4 Ghz.
- 64 GB RAM
- Nvidia Quadro 5000
- 2 x 250GB SATA Disks
- Enabled VTx options
- Disabled Hyperthreading

Native OS:
Oracle Enterprise Linux 6.1

VirtualBox version:
4.1.2 (installed from de yum repository of Vbox for RHEL)

Virtual Machine Configuration:

- Four vCPUs 100% dedicated to the VM
- 8 GB vRAM
- SATA Controller
- PAE activated
- VTX activated
- Sound Disabled
- USB 2.0 disabled

Guest opertating System

- Windows 7 64 bits Professional

- Guest additions installed (including D3D support)

3D Applications

- Catia v5
- UGNX


The main problem is the bad graphical performance reached, natively Catia and UGNX works at the maximum Frame Rate without appear artifacts, neither appears changes of colours on the models that I use.

When I try to simulate the same environment trough virtualbox, the performance decrease a lot, but this is asumible because the virtualization is an aditional layer and it use certain resources. The problem is that the models sometimes turn on white, the application menus leave a shadow on the screen, and definitely is impossible to work normally without problems.

I think the problem is the generic 3d graphic card that provide Virtualbox, this generic card can't use all the performance and values given from my Nvidia Quadro 5000 card.

The problem is very important to me, this environment isnt a test environment, is a producction environment.

Could you provide me an alternative to the generica graphic card provided from Virtualbox?
Is possible to install an propietary Nvidia driver inside of the guest OS?
Could you provide an beta versión of a new driver developed for the next versión of Virtualbox?

Please, i need your help.

Thanks to all in advanced
Regards
Isaac

MOD Edit: Please don't cross post. Other topic deleted.

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With the current version of VirtualBox you should *not install the d3d drivers but instead select no and it will present you with the experimental wddm drivers.
Note: since you have already installed the d3d drivers you will need to uninstall the guest additions to remove them before you try to install the wddm drivers.

You can not install any other graphics drivers in the guest to try to obtain better performance. They will not work anyway.
You must also make sure that the hosts graphics drivers are up-to-date as this will effect the guests video performance.