You can play Minecraft in VirtualBox and VMware VMs. As BC_Programming has mentioned: you need to install the guest additions (VirtualBox) or VMware tools (VMware). If you don't believe it then you don't believe it.
Here is one answer to StalePhish's question:
"I still don't understand why you're trying to run it in a VM when you can just run it outside of a VM."
Suppose you have one computer and two kids. With the right hardware you can easily run two instances of Minecraft at the same time using VMs. My kids love it that they no longer have to take turns playing. Yeah, you'll need two monitors, two keyboards, and two mice and, yeah, monitors aren't exactly cheap. But if you've got a dual monitor setup already then keyboards and mice are cheap in which case it's a solution worth looking into if you have two kids and one computer.
EDIT: Sorry -- you'll need THREE keyboard/mice. And they all need to be "different" in some regard. See my post below for more info.
I don't know the minimum hardware specs you'll need but here's what works for me: Intel Core i7-3770 (VM setup with 2 processors), G.Skill Ripjaws1600 MHz DDR3 RAM (VM allotted 4 GB), OCZ Vertex 4 SSD (VM allotted 15 GB). On the software side, the host OS is Windows 7 and the guest OS is Xubuntu 12.04.
If you're interested in getting Minecraft to work in VirtualBox you'll need a work-around to the crazy mouse error. You can find a solution that I posted here http://www.minecraft...-in-virtualbox/
Suppose you have one computer and two kids. With the right hardware you can easily run two instances of Minecraft at the same time using VMs. My kids love it that they no longer have to take turns playing. Yeah, you'll need two monitors, two keyboards, and two mice
I am having trouble envisioning how that works, as mouse input is singular to the system, as is keyboard input.
You can't have both windows in focus at the same time either.
I am having trouble envisioning how that works, as mouse input is singular to the system, as is keyboard input.
You can't have both windows in focus at the same time either.
Maybe some KVM switching witchcraft or USB "attaching".
But even then, the VM runs like 5~ times slower, so by the emulated GPU, the input updates will be slow in response to actual input times.
Cannot say if bogus or not, because I cbb trying. Much less never managed to run MC in any VMs I have ran, this being in VMware, Vbox, with Windows 7, XP, Debian, Ubuntu. None of them, would run Minecraft at all even with Additions/Tools.
Already had it installed. What notification icon are you referring to? I had reset the VM, so I tried again fresh and ran an update for VMware Tools, reinstalled Java 7, and redownloaded Minecraft. You must be doing something else special. Either that, or maybe something in WinXP SP3 fixes is since my VM is SP2.
Suppose you have one computer and two kids. With the right hardware you can easily run two instances of Minecraft at the same time using VMs. My kids love it that they no longer have to take turns playing. Yeah, you'll need two monitors, two keyboards, and two mice and, yeah, monitors aren't exactly cheap. But if you've got a dual monitor setup already then keyboards and mice are cheap in which case it's a solution worth looking into if you have two kids and one computer.
I actually hadn't heard of a setup like that. Two mice and two keyboards connected to the same computer, but not interfering with each other?
Already had it installed. What notification icon are you referring to? I had reset the VM, so I tried again fresh and ran an update for VMware Tools, reinstalled Java 7, and redownloaded Minecraft. You must be doing something else special. Either that, or maybe something in WinXP SP3 fixes is since my VM is SP2.
I actually hadn't heard of a setup like that. Two mice and two keyboards connected to the same computer, but not interfering with each other?
Just got the Guest Addtions installed so it must be something with Vmware.
(Yes I know I don't have a key, don't have one around)
I am having trouble envisioning how that works, as mouse input is singular to the system, as is keyboard input.
I actually hadn't heard of a setup like that. Two mice and two keyboards connected to the same computer, but not interfering with each other?
The reason it works is that you can tell a VM to capture a mouse and a keyboard. Once this is done, the host OS does not "see" any of the inputs from the captured mouse and keyboard any longer.
Thinking about what I said in my post about my setup: I should amend it to say you really need THREE mice and THREE keyboards -- when the VMs capture their respective mouse/keyboard they render those peripherals unresponsive to the host OS. So unless you've got a third mouse/keyboard around you can't get back to the host OS.
I should mention that any non-captured mouse/keyboard will, obviously, be seen by the host OS as well as all VMs currently running. My kids know not to mess with the third mouse/keyboard for this reason.
EDIT: The following comment applies to VirtualBox; it may or may not apply to VMware. VirtualBox needs some way to distinguish which mouse/keyboard it is capturing. If your peripherals are all different (e.g. they are made by different manufacturers (Logitech, Microsoft, etc.)) then you're good to go. If you have peripherals that are the EXACT same then, unfortunately, you're in trouble. On my setup I have two Logitech MK520 Wireless Combos and one Microsoft Wireless Combo. Each Logitech Wireless Combo uses a unifying receiver. To get things to work, I had to switch out one of the receivers with a receiver from a Logitech MK710 Desktop. The reason is that VirtualBox could not distinguish the unifying receivers from the two MK520s as being different. Supposedly VirtualBox lets you enter in the device serial number as a distinguishing feature but it appears that the Logitech receivers do not publish this information to the OS so VirtualBox can't use it. Even if you look up the serial number of the device using Logitech software and enter it in manually in VirtualBox it's still no go.
EDIT: If you're wondering why I didn't just use one Logitech MK520 and one Logitech MK710 it's because my kids need to have identical peripherals. Less headaches for me if neither kid thinks the other is getting something "different" or "better". Yes, it's silly.
You can't have both windows in focus at the same time either.
You can. For the reason mentioned above once a VM captures a mouse/keyboard all inputs via that peripheral goes to that VM. So inputs from captured mouse/keyboard don't affect the focus of any windows on the host OS because they simply aren't "seen" by the host OS.
But even then, the VM runs like 5~ times slower, so by the emulated GPU, the input updates will be slow in response to actual input times.
Cannot say if bogus or not, because I cbb trying. Much less never managed to run MC in any VMs I have ran, this being in VMware, Vbox, with Windows 7, XP, Debian, Ubuntu. None of them, would run Minecraft at all even with Additions/Tools.
Yeah -- YMMV running Minecraft in VirtualBox or VMware. I was specific with my hardware specs because a friend has tried this using his Dell machine with a Intel Core i7 (Sandy Bridge) and it doesn't work for him. I don't know his RAM specs or his HDD specs or his graphics card specs. In addition to the specs I mentioned in my post, I also have a fancy graphics card but it's unclear to me if that helps because Minecraft does not really use any super-fancy OpenGL. In fact, I know from looking at the Minecraft logs that some OpenGL commands are not supported by the VirtualBox OpenGL guest additions -- hasn't affected gameplay so far.
My kids do know about Minecraft being "laggy" and I haven't heard complaints so far (3+ months now). They also aren't hardcore FPS fanatics so, again, YMMV.
As to your comment about "bogus". Hey, it's the internet. Where you can run into all sorts of claims as well as people. I take no offense.
Sounds about right. Good show for actually explaining rather than yelling like a prepubescent child that we "just don't get it" like some of the users on here.
VirtualBox's 3D drivers are garbage. I don't understand at all why you would want to play Minecraft in a VM, it doesn't serve any purpose. I own a Mac, so I play older Windows games (like GTA III for example) in WINE and I can get full 60 FPS.
Here is one answer to StalePhish's question:
Suppose you have one computer and two kids. With the right hardware you can easily run two instances of Minecraft at the same time using VMs. My kids love it that they no longer have to take turns playing. Yeah, you'll need two monitors, two keyboards, and two mice and, yeah, monitors aren't exactly cheap. But if you've got a dual monitor setup already then keyboards and mice are cheap in which case it's a solution worth looking into if you have two kids and one computer.
EDIT: Sorry -- you'll need THREE keyboard/mice. And they all need to be "different" in some regard. See my post below for more info.
I don't know the minimum hardware specs you'll need but here's what works for me: Intel Core i7-3770 (VM setup with 2 processors), G.Skill Ripjaws1600 MHz DDR3 RAM (VM allotted 4 GB), OCZ Vertex 4 SSD (VM allotted 15 GB). On the software side, the host OS is Windows 7 and the guest OS is Xubuntu 12.04.
If you're interested in getting Minecraft to work in VirtualBox you'll need a work-around to the crazy mouse error. You can find a solution that I posted here http://www.minecraft...-in-virtualbox/
You can't have both windows in focus at the same time either.
Maybe some KVM switching witchcraft or USB "attaching".
But even then, the VM runs like 5~ times slower, so by the emulated GPU, the input updates will be slow in response to actual input times.
Cannot say if bogus or not, because I cbb trying. Much less never managed to run MC in any VMs I have ran, this being in VMware, Vbox, with Windows 7, XP, Debian, Ubuntu. None of them, would run Minecraft at all even with Additions/Tools.
I actually hadn't heard of a setup like that. Two mice and two keyboards connected to the same computer, but not interfering with each other?
Just got the Guest Addtions installed so it must be something with Vmware.
(Yes I know I don't have a key, don't have one around)
The reason it works is that you can tell a VM to capture a mouse and a keyboard. Once this is done, the host OS does not "see" any of the inputs from the captured mouse and keyboard any longer.
Thinking about what I said in my post about my setup: I should amend it to say you really need THREE mice and THREE keyboards -- when the VMs capture their respective mouse/keyboard they render those peripherals unresponsive to the host OS. So unless you've got a third mouse/keyboard around you can't get back to the host OS.
I should mention that any non-captured mouse/keyboard will, obviously, be seen by the host OS as well as all VMs currently running. My kids know not to mess with the third mouse/keyboard for this reason.
EDIT: The following comment applies to VirtualBox; it may or may not apply to VMware. VirtualBox needs some way to distinguish which mouse/keyboard it is capturing. If your peripherals are all different (e.g. they are made by different manufacturers (Logitech, Microsoft, etc.)) then you're good to go. If you have peripherals that are the EXACT same then, unfortunately, you're in trouble. On my setup I have two Logitech MK520 Wireless Combos and one Microsoft Wireless Combo. Each Logitech Wireless Combo uses a unifying receiver. To get things to work, I had to switch out one of the receivers with a receiver from a Logitech MK710 Desktop. The reason is that VirtualBox could not distinguish the unifying receivers from the two MK520s as being different. Supposedly VirtualBox lets you enter in the device serial number as a distinguishing feature but it appears that the Logitech receivers do not publish this information to the OS so VirtualBox can't use it. Even if you look up the serial number of the device using Logitech software and enter it in manually in VirtualBox it's still no go.
EDIT: If you're wondering why I didn't just use one Logitech MK520 and one Logitech MK710 it's because my kids need to have identical peripherals. Less headaches for me if neither kid thinks the other is getting something "different" or "better". Yes, it's silly.
You can. For the reason mentioned above once a VM captures a mouse/keyboard all inputs via that peripheral goes to that VM. So inputs from captured mouse/keyboard don't affect the focus of any windows on the host OS because they simply aren't "seen" by the host OS.
Yeah -- YMMV running Minecraft in VirtualBox or VMware. I was specific with my hardware specs because a friend has tried this using his Dell machine with a Intel Core i7 (Sandy Bridge) and it doesn't work for him. I don't know his RAM specs or his HDD specs or his graphics card specs. In addition to the specs I mentioned in my post, I also have a fancy graphics card but it's unclear to me if that helps because Minecraft does not really use any super-fancy OpenGL. In fact, I know from looking at the Minecraft logs that some OpenGL commands are not supported by the VirtualBox OpenGL guest additions -- hasn't affected gameplay so far.
My kids do know about Minecraft being "laggy" and I haven't heard complaints so far (3+ months now). They also aren't hardcore FPS fanatics so, again, YMMV.
As to your comment about "bogus". Hey, it's the internet. Where you can run into all sorts of claims as well as people. I take no offense.