Anyone here with VMWare Player experience?

[drone]

Dunno. Quick Google search reveals that Player ought to support hardware acceleration for graphics as of version 2.5: http://www.vmware.com/support/player...player250.html
For Linux you probably don't need VMWare, VirtualBox will do the job just fine.

Basically, I'm interested in getting older games working in an XP install through a VM. Looks like 2.5 supports DirectX9. I also wonder if this could be used to bypass the nVidia problems and other issues we see with MTW on modern systems. This would depend on how VMWare defines the hardware to the guest OS and how it translates the DirectX calls to the hardware drivers on the host.

In the meantime I have a question about your signature, is my French that bad (I thought to kill is tuer?) or did Louis write “If I were not playing with games I would die from small animals at a higher level than I am at the moment” or something to that effect?

When Strike and Louis did their profile switcharoo a while back, I took my old SFTS quote and put it through the Google translator. My French is so rusty I can't tell if Google lied to me or not.