I have read about how running the latest version of AP on parallels or VMware works like a charm if you are a mac user. Those solutions both cost additional $$. I have VirtualBox, which is an open source virtualization solution that does support 3D hardware acceleration and DirectX, etc. I havemade sure that my machine shows 256MB video memory and meets all of the other specs, but I am still getting an error on startup that my machine doesn't meet the system requirements.

Has anyone had success in using VirtualBox as the emulation environment to run Crazy Talk Animator Pro?