Switch to VMWare/VMPlayer if you want accelerated graphics in a VM.
You can download a trial for free, setup your VM, then switch to the player after 30 days and keep using it.
Will I be able to develop OpenGL applications? Will it support higher versions of GLSL instead of Mesa's 1.20 GLSL version? Because this is the only reason I'm sort of forced to stop using VM's, to stop using Mesa and having to install a real graphics card driver.
However, once Steam on Linux comes out I'd be happy to switch completely from Windows to Linux. But in the mean time, I have to stay with Windows.
Steam for Linux is out (albeit in beta), the problem is that it needs more games =P (although seems to be getting games at a faster pace than its Mac counterpart)
As for the actual topic: yeah, you won't get what you want with a virtual machine, the most you can get is VMWare and OpenGL 2 if I recall correctly (short of using a software renderer, which is what Mesa would do). Either dual boot or get a second computer and install Linux on it (in the latter case you could try to connect the computers so that somehow they can share the files without much problem, which would be probably much faster for debugging than dual boot - no idea what options are out there though).
Your options are pretty much to install linux directly on the metal, or suck it up and develop on Windows.
I honestly recommend the latter - graphics driver support in Linux, while worlds better than it was a few years back, is still a rather sore point...
I wonder if anyone has accomplished it with virtualbox Linux and windows.
I honestly recommend the latter - graphics driver support in Linux, while worlds better than it was a few years back, is still a rather sore point...
At least with Nvidia hardware it's way more than bearable (provided you accept using the proprietary drivers), Optimus shenanigans aside (shouldn't be an issue otherwise). If you have other hardware you're pretty much screwed though (your mileage may vary in that case).
