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Pong works well in any vm.The problem with most VM type of solutions is that the hardware is Para-Virtualised" which means you are running not physical hardware but "Virtualised" hardware from a "Virtualised bios". This makes it possible to run the same VM on quite different physical hardware.
Most Games often need to access the hardware directly -- especially the GPU or graphics drivers. On VMWare and Vbox that wont be a good mix for the graphics On HYPER-V or if using a Linux Host running KVM/QEMU (both these are HYPERVISORS which allow for a lot more options and flexibility) you can "pass thru" the hardware to the VM so it can use the native capability of the device -- but then that piece of hardware is dedicated to the VM and can't be used by other VM's or even the host. Also in order to do that there's often parameters in the physical machines bios that needs to be set such as possibly IOMMU or similar.
Unless you have modern hardware and two graphic adapters where you can dedicate one of them to the VM then serious gaming on a VM is going to be a disappointment even if the game runs at all.
Cheers
jimbo