WPF, Graphics cards and VPC

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WPF, Graphics cards and VPC

Hi,

Does anybody know of any plans, possibilities that Microsoft or any other company that makes virtual pc type software will be able to supply one that makes use of graphics cards more than they do at the moment. For example will it be possible for a VPC to expose a DirectX 9 generic graphics card if your real card can support DirectX 9

I really don't know about graphics cards very much or VPCs for that metter (Maybe it shows)

I assume its obvious what this has got to do with installing beta versions of WPF...

I will not be able to get an extra PC just to test WPF betas on, I will however be able to use a VPC to do some tests and would love to have a play with WPF and widows vista in general.

Thanks,

Mike G

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WPF, Graphics cards and VPC

  • -Matthew-

    I'm no expert in the real guts underlying the presentation framework's rendering architecture, but I've sat in on a couple sessions about it and here's what I understand thus far.

    Supposedly it's entirely possible to offload the rendering of WPF to a completely different machine. This is because the instructions for what needs to be rendered in the scene are marshaled across to a renderer and that renderer could actually be running a completely different machine (i.e. WPF over terminal services). So, if that's possible, streaming the rendering out of a VPC instance should also be entirely possible. Plus, if it's not for some weird reason, you could always remote into the VPC instance using terminal services and be in the exact scenario that I just mentioned.

    Cheers,
    Drew

  • kolbe144

    My understanding is that this will be enabled in Vista, which means that both the VPC and the real OS need to be Vista, which sort of defeats the purpose of using VPC for testing Vista. I suggest a second hard drive or a dual boot partition as the most functional solution today.

  • biswebdotws

    Oh well it's good to know what's likely to be out there anyway.

    Thanks everyone for your info.

    -Mike G
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