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Is it possible to play games through Virtual Box and Win7/Vista/XP or is the performance loss to big? With Linux host ofc...

Edited by Swantee

Obviously your resources are lower in the virtual machine, so performance loss is indeed to be expected. I guess it would vary from game to game. I tried Age of Empires II a couple weeks ago on a virtual Windows XP (about 1 Go of RAM, one processor, 90 Mo video memory) and I could run the first tutorials without any problem. But when I got to the tutorial mission with a bigger map and a second computer, the game got excessively slow, so it would be unplayable for most scenarios. Given how old the game is, I wouldn't expect much for other games, but my settings are probably not optimal and of course you'll have better chances with better hardware.

That's just my personal experience, I guess others can give you better insight.