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by calvin_ 1664 days ago
that page is a bit outdated; i do know VBox has changed for at least devices like SVGA, so I think it's possible. that said, i don't use vbox, so i can't say for sure
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Nah, it's still the same protocol: https://www.virtualbox.org/browser/vbox/trunk/src/VBox/Devic...

What they dropped is the older Chromium/VMGL-based protocol for 3D acceleration , in favor of VMware's solution (which has at least one working open-source guest-side linux driver); but nothing else (and as far as I can see nothing from that page, so it's not really outdated).

Is that why 3d acceleration doesn't work anymore in recent versions of VirtualBox in Windows 2000 or Windows XP guests?
Well, and because they decided not to support the new 3D acceleration method on pre-Vista guests' Additions.