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Nov 30, 2007 9:40 AM by
dansolo
The premise and power of VMWare is the hardware virtualization. This means motherboard, hard drives, RAM, NICs, video cards, etc are all software representations which are then mapped to the appropriate device. The advantage to this is that your VMs will not see any changes in hardware even if you move them from one host to another. But it also means that you will not be able to tie your VM directly to your particular video card.
VMWare workstation 5 supported direct3D as an "experimental" technology http://www.vmware.com/support/ws5/doc/ws_vidsound_d3d.html and at a VMWorld session i was in (can't remember which, unfortunately) they indicated that tey are still working to increase the virtual videocard performance. Soooo there may be aero support coming, but as far as I can tell, it is not here today.
