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[Bo-Rufus CMVII]

Is there any reason DF shouldn't run on Windows XP in a virtual machine, using virtualbox?  It works fine on my Windows 7 and Ubuntu machines, but I've tried it on two different VMs and it won't run on either.

Is there a way to force it to output an error message?

[helf]

I have no input on this, but I have to ask; Why are you running it in a VM?

[JWNoctis]

Not really sure about this, but have you tried that legacy version? I don't know whether Virtualbox supports OpenGL on its guests or not, but AFAIK the SDL version of DF requires that.  /ninja'd

[Bo-Rufus CMVII]

I have no input on this, but I have to ask; Why are you running it in a VM?

I would just run it under Linux, but I'm already addicted to DwarfTherapist, which apparently doesn't work on Linux at this point.

[Bo-Rufus CMVII]

Not really sure about this, but have you tried that legacy version? I don't know whether Virtualbox supports OpenGL on its guests or not, but AFAIK the SDL version of DF requires that.  /ninja'd

Thanks; that's something I can look in to.

[Ampersand]

Do you have enough remaining ram left between running two operating systems at once to be able to run dwarf fortress?

[Bo-Rufus CMVII]

Do you have enough remaining ram left between running two operating systems at once to be able to run dwarf fortress?

That's a good thought, but probably not the problem; it's a 12G machine, so WinXP thinks it's got 3.5G.

[SirPenguin]

I've had luck with both VMware and WINE. I'd try either of those options, if possible