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Our office is all Mac, and we would like to try out the Octane renderer, but there is no Mac plugin for ArchiCad ATM. So I thought we could boot up a Windows VM, install ArchiCad and the Octane plugin demo on it, and try how that works. I know running virtualized is not a very good options for real-time (gaming) performance, but for rendering this should not matter much. Right? Or wrong?

Anyone with experience trying out rendering on VMs? Is VMWare better than VirtualBox for tapping into the GPU, for instance?

maybe..
http://blogs.vmware.com/performance/201 ... -a-vm.html

but..
"Operation close to native performance is not unexpected, as the direct communication been VM and GPU provided by VMDirectPath IO ensures the hypervisor doesn’t get involved in each and every interaction (which would add overhead), allowing even short duration operations to run close to native performance."