Why use a virtual machine?

[nepal]

On Sunday 30 Nov 2008, Steve Lamb wrote:
>     My home usage is not so robust.  I have a single
> VirtualBox VM which boots the KUbuntu partition on my
> dual-boot machine.  When I'm playing games in WinXP and
> need access to my Linux desktop I just run VM instead of
> shut everything down, twiddle for a few minutes on the
> Linux desktop, then reboot back into Windows and load up
> my games again.  Something tells me that the reverse of
> this is what most people would be looking for out of
> VirtualBox and WinXP.  ;)

When I looked into this I understand that the reverse is not 
so good, i.e. running a VM inside Linux of a Windows system 
because there is no support for 3d acceleration in VM. That 
is exactly what I want to do, play 2 old win 95 games 
inside a VM. Am I mistaken?

nepal.