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mjenkins10-Marble
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June 30, 2010
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Anybody had success running ProE on VMWare Fusion on a Mac Pro?

I allocated 2 GB of memory and windows XP seems pretty zippy. When I install WF4, I can't see the model screen possibly because of OpenGL? I think the graphics card is emulated in VMWare so maybe it is not supported? The menus are all visible and pickable...

Michael R. Jenkins P.E.
Design Engineer
Direct: 816-801-2332
Fax: 816-891-9432

Commercial Vehicle Systems
Haldex Brake Products Corporation
10930 North Pomona Avenue
Kansas City, MO 64153-1215


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pgress1-Visitor
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June 30, 2010
On 06/30/10 03:19 PM, Michael Jenkins wrote:
>
> Anybody had success running ProE on VMWare Fusion on a Mac Pro?
>
> I allocated 2 GB of memory and windows XP seems pretty zippy. When I
> install WF4, I can't see the model screen possibly because of OpenGL?
> I think the graphics card is emulated in VMWare so maybe it is not
> supported? The menus are all visible and pickable...
>

I've successfully got WF5 running in VBox with Opensolaris as the Host
and Windows XP as the Guest. Additionally, I had to add into Windows a
package called "guest additions" which included accelerated Nvidia
graphics based from your original Nvidia Graphics card.

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pgress1-Visitor
1-Visitor
June 30, 2010
On 06/30/10 04:07 PM, Paul Gress wrote:
> On 06/30/10 03:19 PM, Michael Jenkins wrote:
>>
>> Anybody had success running ProE on VMWare Fusion on a Mac Pro?
>>
>> I allocated 2 GB of memory and windows XP seems pretty zippy. When I
>> install WF4, I can't see the model screen possibly because of
>> OpenGL? I think the graphics card is emulated in VMWare so maybe it
>> is not supported? The menus are all visible and pickable...
>>
>
> I've successfully got WF5 running in VBox with Opensolaris as the Host
> and Windows XP as the Guest. Additionally, I had to add into Windows
> a package called "guest additions" which included accelerated Nvidia
> graphics based from your original Nvidia Graphics card.
>
>

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mjenkins10-MarbleAuthor
10-Marble
June 30, 2010

http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2007/02/6960.ars

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xF_CoXsXtk4

I am going to try some of the settings reported in this YouTube video and report the results back.


In Reply to Michael Jenkins:

Anybody had success running ProE on VMWare Fusion on a Mac Pro?

I allocated 2 GB of memory and windows XP seems pretty zippy. When I install WF4, I can't see the model screen possibly because of OpenGL? I think the graphics card is emulated in VMWare so maybe it is not supported? The menus are all visible and pickable...

Michael R. Jenkins P.E.
Design Engineer
Direct: 816-801-2332
Fax: 816-891-9432

Commercial Vehicle Systems
Haldex Brake Products Corporation
10930 North Pomona Avenue
Kansas City, MO 64153-1215



Michael R. Jenkins P.E.
Design Engineer
Direct: 816-801-2332
Fax: 816-891-9432

Commercial Vehicle Systems
Haldex Brake Products Corporation
10930 North Pomona Avenue
Kansas City, MO 64153-1215
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RandyJones20-Turquoise
20-Turquoise
June 30, 2010
On 06/30/10 15:42, Paul Gress wrote:
> On 06/30/10 04:07 PM, Paul Gress wrote:
>> On 06/30/10 03:19 PM, Michael Jenkins wrote:
>>>
>>> Anybody had success running ProE on VMWare Fusion on a Mac Pro?
>>>
>>> I allocated 2 GB of memory and windows XP seems pretty zippy. When I install
>>> WF4, I can't see the model screen possibly because of OpenGL? I think the
>>> graphics card is emulated in VMWare so maybe it is not supported? The menus
>>> are all visible and pickable...
>>>
>>
>> I've successfully got WF5 running in VBox with Opensolaris as the Host and
>> Windows XP as the Guest. Additionally, I had to add into Windows a package
>> called "guest additions" which included accelerated Nvidia graphics based from
>> your original Nvidia Graphics card.
>>
>>
>
>
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pgress1-Visitor
1-Visitor
June 30, 2010
On 06/30/10 05:25 PM, Randy Jones wrote:
>
>> One other thing I forgot, finding the "guest additions" is hard.
>>
>>
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mjenkins10-MarbleAuthor
10-Marble
July 2, 2010

Seems operational (at least with Product View)!!! The secret is that only Windows 7 is supported for 3D acceleration.

I have tried Virtual Box in the past with Linux and liked it very much.

We have some pre-made OSimages in VMWare though so that is why I was trying to stick with that.


In Reply to Michael Jenkins:

http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2007/02/6960.ars

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xF_CoXsXtk4

I am going to try some of the settings reported in this YouTube video and report the results back.


In Reply to Michael Jenkins:

Anybody had success running ProE on VMWare Fusion on a Mac Pro?

I allocated 2 GB of memory and windows XP seems pretty zippy. When I install WF4, I can't see the model screen possibly because of OpenGL? I think the graphics card is emulated in VMWare so maybe it is not supported? The menus are all visible and pickable...

Michael R. Jenkins P.E.
Design Engineer
Direct: 816-801-2332
Fax: 816-891-9432

Commercial Vehicle Systems
Haldex Brake Products Corporation
10930 North Pomona Avenue
Kansas City, MO 64153-1215

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