I can confirm that the reason MoI doesn't work under wine is it's heavy reliance of some IE specific stuff - D3D isn't the problem :)

Using the "fake IE" install doesn't fix that.

RE: OpenGL under virtualbox/vmware/etc - at this point, SOME OGL commands can be passed to the underlying OS for a few of them - otherwise, it's software rendering all the way (which... actually doesn't bother me, if MoI would allow it - I'd deal with the low frame rate to use my beloved MoI under Linux)