cloudkiller's Journal: Virtual Console

I've been thinking about this idea for awhile and I'm wondering what the Slashdot crowd thinks. Take a game, ideally a big game like a Diablo 3, and make this game a native Linux game. Since most people do not run Linux on their home machines, have the installer of this game install a virtual machine on the windows/mac/whatever box that will install a virtual Linux build (probably a stripped down one) that will be used to play the game. This will allow anyone on any machine to play the game using this virtual Linux machine. lucky Linux users will be able to play the game right from their distro and everyone else will just have a, hopefully, transparent virtual machine which runs the game. If this idea got big enough, someone could make a standard Linux virtual machine that any number of games could use to run. Suddenly we would have a universal gaming platform or a virtual console. This console could then transition people away from the days when games were build for a specific operating system. Could something like this work? Is someone trying it? Has M$ already filed the patent?

Root Kit

[acro55]

Sounds like a root kit to me. Doesn't microsoft do something like this with DirectX that some games force you to install?

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[cloudkiller]

Suggest an alternative. mr. rootkit. Also, you should look up what exactly a rootkit is. I'm proposing a virtual machine, like vmware, that will run in whatever operating system you are running and within this environment the game will interface with the hardware and allow you to play. In a sense this is like direct X but without the MS stranglehold. I've heard that the new direct x 10 will only work with Vista and it is not backwards compatible with previous versions. This means that if a game is buil