To whom it might concern... my super-duper-team!

Hi guys,

just read your blogs... I think the work you've been doing so far it's ok... I guess the major issue we have at the moment is with running the game in a virtual environment. I worked with Fred last week (do you like cross-team work? There's plenty of it here! :)) because I thought that trying something with real machines would've helped... nothing like that... Well.. we did achieve some goals but nothing spectacular... In conclusion that "thing" still wouldn't work.
We are able to build a Windows 2008 cluster as I showed you last time during the presentation using 100% Microsoft software compliant which would work for a business environment but it wouldn't for a gaming one.
Tafe is about finishing and I really can't make much time to work on this (by the way today I got flu...) so I guess we can just show our team work as it is, merge the presentations we have in order to come up with something well organized.

Probably we are not gonna fix this issue but we shouldn't be feeling crap... At the moment finding NAS solutions able to run with 2008 is not easy, finding desktop virtualizations able to run 3D app is not easy (most of'em just sort of run OpenGL but not DirectX) and the semester is going to end...
Running DirectX in a virtual env is not easy simply because:

1) DirectX is not OpenSource
2) Vendors are not happy with releasing docs about video cards specs

That's a big issue... I wrote some lines on the forum of VirtualBox (wich runs OpenGL but not DirectX) and the moderator got irritated... he wrote:

"You and dozens of others want it, and it's been shouted here dozens of times. The devs know, alright. It's not as easy to implement DX, especially on non-Windows systems. And DirectX isn't OpenSource, which is a bit of a problem for VB.

... I'm locking this, as there it's already known users want it. It will come in due time."

Did I make myself clear? :)))) It's not easy...
At the moment we know that the game'd work in a 2003 cluster env but it won't in a 2008 one.
Please post ANY comment you guys feel like write because it could help for the final presentation... once again I ain't gonna work on the 3D issue during next week, I'll do it just on monday (I hope with Fred again) and then I'd like to get the final presentation done.