That's a good theory - care to put it to the test? Create some VMs with HYPER-V, ESXi and KVM/QEMU and see if they can be setup for DirectX/Direct3D gaming? Post your results because I've searched...

The other advantage of VMWare Player over the other virtualizers - 3D acceleration for guest OSes if the host OS supports it.

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