Re: VM-Ware
I have Max / Maya and Softimage from 2010 to 2013 running on VMWare on Windows. It is working fine for most usage with exception to what Chris mention (Hardware graphics card) Softimage also works on in linux / VMWare :) -Ivan ivan@nospam.autodesk.com (please remove nospam) On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 6:19 PM, Halim Negadi hneg...@gmail.com wrote: Well, it does support hardware 3d acceleration as well as virtual box On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 11:11 AM, Chris Chia chris.c...@autodesk.comwrote: Vmware doesn't support hardware graphic card. Has anyone else using Parallels instead? Anyway, it's possible to run Softimage Linux on a vmware. From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Halim Negadi Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2013 3:55 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: VM-Ware While working within linux environments, I personnally find more enjoyable using Softimage running in a windows VM than the linux version itself. On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 8:53 PM, Halim Negadi hneg...@gmail.commailto: hneg...@gmail.com wrote: Softimage 2011/2012 2013 works like a charm over here on vmware workstation 9 running windows 7 workstation x64 sp1 under ubuntu 12.04 amd64. Except from a few harmless display bugs ( more often in the schematic than in actual viewports ), it's definitely workable and has decent performance. A very important thing is to make sure vmx processor acceleration is enabled in the bios and in the vm configuration to have maximum display and computing performance running your vms. The most succesfull and stable attempt to run softimage in VMs was in parallels desktop though, Very stable with almost no display bugs virtualizing windows 7 64 sp1 using parallels desktop 7 on osx lion. Never got the chance to test parallels workstation extreme ( http://www.parallels.com/products/extreme/ ) on linux because it's slightly expensive and only supported on redhat based distos as we stick on debian based ones over here. On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 7:42 PM, Gene Crucean emailgeneonthel...@gmail.commailto:emailgeneonthel...@gmail.com wrote: To be fair though... getting Softimage running on Linux in general isn't for the faint of heart. VirtualBox is cool... it's free and all. But performance wise it's quite bad. VMWareFusion is quite speedy on my home machine. It's the only way I run windows at home anymore. On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 7:08 AM, Alan Fregtman alan.fregt...@gmail.com mailto:alan.fregt...@gmail.com wrote: I think there's been some confusion... At work I'm on Linux (CentOS 6.2) and my VMWare VM is virtualizing Windows 7, where Softimage runs swimmingly. Was it a VM virtualizing Linux and running Softimage that was the issue for you? I never tried that as we use Linux natively here. On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 9:58 AM, Ben Houston b...@exocortex.commailto: b...@exocortex.com wrote: Hi Alan, No way? You mean you have a VM running Softimage on Linux? What Linux OS are you running inside of the VM? Did you do anything special to get it running? I've wasted countless hours try to get the required video card drivers to work on Linux inside of a VM. I think that cumulatively Exocortex has lost at least a couple of whole days of effort trying to get to work over the last couple years -- but maybe things got better with recent version of Softimage / VMWare? Someone should make a webpage that describes the steps for VMWare or VirtualBox as that is a huge thing, especially for us plugin developers. We've been forced to buy additional PCs or do dual boot configurations. -- Best regards, Ben Houston Voice: 613-762-4113tel:613-762-4113 Skype: ben.exocortex Twitter: @exocortexcom http://Exocortex.com - Passionate CG Software Professionals. -- Gene Crucean - Emmy winning - Oscar nominated VFX Supervisor / iOS-OSX Developer / Filmmaker / Photographer ** Freelance for hire ** www.genecrucean.comhttp://www.genecrucean.com ~~ Please use my website's contact form on www.genecrucean.com http://www.genecrucean.com/ for any personal emails. Thanks. I may not get them at this address. ~~
Re: VM-Ware
What do you guys mean by Hardware Graphics Card ? Of course, the VM won't see you hardware graphics as it is but VMware will expose it through it's own driver which does provide a hardware accelerated opengl. This driver comes with the vmware tools you have to install in your VM. The only thing the vmware driver won't be able to handle is the high quality viewport. Except from that, we have pretty decent display performance over here. Another alternative is VirtualBox, it's free and it comes also with a hardware accelerated display driver. The display performances are even better than the VMWare ones but it's a little buggy with softimage for now. On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 11:38 AM, ivan t ivansoftim...@gmail.com wrote: I have Max / Maya and Softimage from 2010 to 2013 running on VMWare on Windows. It is working fine for most usage with exception to what Chris mention (Hardware graphics card) Softimage also works on in linux / VMWare :) -Ivan ivan@nospam.autodesk.com (please remove nospam) On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 6:19 PM, Halim Negadi hneg...@gmail.com wrote: Well, it does support hardware 3d acceleration as well as virtual box On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 11:11 AM, Chris Chia chris.c...@autodesk.comwrote: Vmware doesn't support hardware graphic card. Has anyone else using Parallels instead? Anyway, it's possible to run Softimage Linux on a vmware. From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Halim Negadi Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2013 3:55 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: VM-Ware While working within linux environments, I personnally find more enjoyable using Softimage running in a windows VM than the linux version itself. On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 8:53 PM, Halim Negadi hneg...@gmail.commailto: hneg...@gmail.com wrote: Softimage 2011/2012 2013 works like a charm over here on vmware workstation 9 running windows 7 workstation x64 sp1 under ubuntu 12.04 amd64. Except from a few harmless display bugs ( more often in the schematic than in actual viewports ), it's definitely workable and has decent performance. A very important thing is to make sure vmx processor acceleration is enabled in the bios and in the vm configuration to have maximum display and computing performance running your vms. The most succesfull and stable attempt to run softimage in VMs was in parallels desktop though, Very stable with almost no display bugs virtualizing windows 7 64 sp1 using parallels desktop 7 on osx lion. Never got the chance to test parallels workstation extreme ( http://www.parallels.com/products/extreme/ ) on linux because it's slightly expensive and only supported on redhat based distos as we stick on debian based ones over here. On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 7:42 PM, Gene Crucean emailgeneonthel...@gmail.commailto:emailgeneonthel...@gmail.com wrote: To be fair though... getting Softimage running on Linux in general isn't for the faint of heart. VirtualBox is cool... it's free and all. But performance wise it's quite bad. VMWareFusion is quite speedy on my home machine. It's the only way I run windows at home anymore. On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 7:08 AM, Alan Fregtman alan.fregt...@gmail.com mailto:alan.fregt...@gmail.com wrote: I think there's been some confusion... At work I'm on Linux (CentOS 6.2) and my VMWare VM is virtualizing Windows 7, where Softimage runs swimmingly. Was it a VM virtualizing Linux and running Softimage that was the issue for you? I never tried that as we use Linux natively here. On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 9:58 AM, Ben Houston b...@exocortex.commailto: b...@exocortex.com wrote: Hi Alan, No way? You mean you have a VM running Softimage on Linux? What Linux OS are you running inside of the VM? Did you do anything special to get it running? I've wasted countless hours try to get the required video card drivers to work on Linux inside of a VM. I think that cumulatively Exocortex has lost at least a couple of whole days of effort trying to get to work over the last couple years -- but maybe things got better with recent version of Softimage / VMWare? Someone should make a webpage that describes the steps for VMWare or VirtualBox as that is a huge thing, especially for us plugin developers. We've been forced to buy additional PCs or do dual boot configurations. -- Best regards, Ben Houston Voice: 613-762-4113tel:613-762-4113 Skype: ben.exocortex Twitter: @exocortexcom http://Exocortex.com - Passionate CG Software Professionals. -- Gene Crucean - Emmy winning - Oscar nominated VFX Supervisor / iOS-OSX Developer / Filmmaker / Photographer ** Freelance for hire ** www.genecrucean.comhttp://www.genecrucean.com ~~ Please use my website's contact form on www.genecrucean.com http://www.genecrucean.com/ for any personal emails. Thanks. I may not get them at this address. ~~
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Talking about virtual machines, anybody already played with MS upgrade to Virtual PC; Hyper-V? Now this is included in W8pro, it could be an alternative as well to VMWare and VirtualBox. Rob \/-\/\/ On 16-1-2013 13:06, Halim Negadi wrote: What do you guys mean by Hardware Graphics Card ? Of course, the VM won't see you hardware graphics as it is but VMware will expose it through it's own driver which does provide a hardware accelerated opengl. This driver comes with the vmware tools you have to install in your VM. The only thing the vmware driver won't be able to handle is the high quality viewport. Except from that, we have pretty decent display performance over here. Another alternative is VirtualBox, it's free and it comes also with a hardware accelerated display driver. The display performances are even better than the VMWare ones but it's a little buggy with softimage for now. On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 11:38 AM, ivan t ivansoftim...@gmail.com mailto:ivansoftim...@gmail.com wrote: I have Max / Maya and Softimage from 2010 to 2013 running on VMWare on Windows. It is working fine for most usage with exception to what Chris mention (Hardware graphics card) Softimage also works on in linux / VMWare :) -Ivan ivan@nospam.autodesk.com mailto:ivan@nospam.autodesk.com (please remove nospam) On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 6:19 PM, Halim Negadi hneg...@gmail.com mailto:hneg...@gmail.com wrote: Well, it does support hardware 3d acceleration as well as virtual box On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 11:11 AM, Chris Chia chris.c...@autodesk.com mailto:chris.c...@autodesk.com wrote: Vmware doesn't support hardware graphic card. Has anyone else using Parallels instead? Anyway, it's possible to run Softimage Linux on a vmware. From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Halim Negadi Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2013 3:55 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com mailto:softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: VM-Ware While working within linux environments, I personnally find more enjoyable using Softimage running in a windows VM than the linux version itself. On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 8:53 PM, Halim Negadi hneg...@gmail.com mailto:hneg...@gmail.commailto:hneg...@gmail.com mailto:hneg...@gmail.com wrote: Softimage 2011/2012 2013 works like a charm over here on vmware workstation 9 running windows 7 workstation x64 sp1 under ubuntu 12.04 amd64. Except from a few harmless display bugs ( more often in the schematic than in actual viewports ), it's definitely workable and has decent performance. A very important thing is to make sure vmx processor acceleration is enabled in the bios and in the vm configuration to have maximum display and computing performance running your vms. The most succesfull and stable attempt to run softimage in VMs was in parallels desktop though, Very stable with almost no display bugs virtualizing windows 7 64 sp1 using parallels desktop 7 on osx lion. Never got the chance to test parallels workstation extreme ( http://www.parallels.com/products/extreme/ ) on linux because it's slightly expensive and only supported on redhat based distos as we stick on debian based ones over here. On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 7:42 PM, Gene Crucean emailgeneonthel...@gmail.com mailto:emailgeneonthel...@gmail.commailto:emailgeneonthel...@gmail.com mailto:emailgeneonthel...@gmail.com wrote: To be fair though... getting Softimage running on Linux in general isn't for the faint of heart. VirtualBox is cool... it's free and all. But performance wise it's quite bad. VMWareFusion is quite speedy on my home machine. It's the only way I run windows at home anymore. On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 7:08 AM, Alan Fregtman alan.fregt...@gmail.com mailto:alan.fregt...@gmail.commailto:alan.fregt...@gmail.com mailto:alan.fregt...@gmail.com wrote: I think there's been some confusion... At work I'm on Linux (CentOS 6.2) and my VMWare VM is virtualizing Windows 7, where Softimage runs swimmingly. Was it a VM virtualizing Linux and running Softimage that was the issue for you? I never tried that as we use
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Video cards are supported in Parallels... If and only if you have 2 cards in your system, cos you could set one to be used by Parallels. On 16 Jan, 2013, at 8:06 PM, Halim Negadi hneg...@gmail.commailto:hneg...@gmail.com wrote: What do you guys mean by Hardware Graphics Card ? Of course, the VM won't see you hardware graphics as it is but VMware will expose it through it's own driver which does provide a hardware accelerated opengl. This driver comes with the vmware tools you have to install in your VM. The only thing the vmware driver won't be able to handle is the high quality viewport. Except from that, we have pretty decent display performance over here. Another alternative is VirtualBox, it's free and it comes also with a hardware accelerated display driver. The display performances are even better than the VMWare ones but it's a little buggy with softimage for now. On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 11:38 AM, ivan t ivansoftim...@gmail.commailto:ivansoftim...@gmail.com wrote: I have Max / Maya and Softimage from 2010 to 2013 running on VMWare on Windows. It is working fine for most usage with exception to what Chris mention (Hardware graphics card) Softimage also works on in linux / VMWare :) -Ivan ivan@nospam.autodesk.commailto:ivan@nospam.autodesk.com (please remove nospam) On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 6:19 PM, Halim Negadi hneg...@gmail.commailto:hneg...@gmail.com wrote: Well, it does support hardware 3d acceleration as well as virtual box On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 11:11 AM, Chris Chia chris.c...@autodesk.commailto:chris.c...@autodesk.com wrote: Vmware doesn't support hardware graphic card. Has anyone else using Parallels instead? Anyway, it's possible to run Softimage Linux on a vmware. From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.commailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.commailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Halim Negadi Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2013 3:55 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.commailto:softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: VM-Ware While working within linux environments, I personnally find more enjoyable using Softimage running in a windows VM than the linux version itself. On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 8:53 PM, Halim Negadi hneg...@gmail.commailto:hneg...@gmail.commailto:hneg...@gmail.commailto:hneg...@gmail.com wrote: Softimage 2011/2012 2013 works like a charm over here on vmware workstation 9 running windows 7 workstation x64 sp1 under ubuntu 12.04 amd64. Except from a few harmless display bugs ( more often in the schematic than in actual viewports ), it's definitely workable and has decent performance. A very important thing is to make sure vmx processor acceleration is enabled in the bios and in the vm configuration to have maximum display and computing performance running your vms. The most succesfull and stable attempt to run softimage in VMs was in parallels desktop though, Very stable with almost no display bugs virtualizing windows 7 64 sp1 using parallels desktop 7 on osx lion. Never got the chance to test parallels workstation extreme ( http://www.parallels.com/products/extreme/ ) on linux because it's slightly expensive and only supported on redhat based distos as we stick on debian based ones over here. On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 7:42 PM, Gene Crucean emailgeneonthel...@gmail.commailto:emailgeneonthel...@gmail.commailto:emailgeneonthel...@gmail.commailto:emailgeneonthel...@gmail.com wrote: To be fair though... getting Softimage running on Linux in general isn't for the faint of heart. VirtualBox is cool... it's free and all. But performance wise it's quite bad. VMWareFusion is quite speedy on my home machine. It's the only way I run windows at home anymore. On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 7:08 AM, Alan Fregtman alan.fregt...@gmail.commailto:alan.fregt...@gmail.commailto:alan.fregt...@gmail.commailto:alan.fregt...@gmail.com wrote: I think there's been some confusion... At work I'm on Linux (CentOS 6.2) and my VMWare VM is virtualizing Windows 7, where Softimage runs swimmingly. Was it a VM virtualizing Linux and running Softimage that was the issue for you? I never tried that as we use Linux natively here. On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 9:58 AM, Ben Houston b...@exocortex.commailto:b...@exocortex.commailto:b...@exocortex.commailto:b...@exocortex.com wrote: Hi Alan, No way? You mean you have a VM running Softimage on Linux? What Linux OS are you running inside of the VM? Did you do anything special to get it running? I've wasted countless hours try to get the required video card drivers to work on Linux inside of a VM. I think that cumulatively Exocortex has lost at least a couple of whole days of effort trying to get to work over the last couple years -- but maybe things got better with recent version of Softimage / VMWare? Someone should make a webpage that describes the steps for VMWare or VirtualBox as that is a huge thing, especially for us
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Vmware doesn't support hardware graphic card. Has anyone else using Parallels instead? Anyway, it's possible to run Softimage Linux on a vmware. From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Halim Negadi Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2013 3:55 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: VM-Ware While working within linux environments, I personnally find more enjoyable using Softimage running in a windows VM than the linux version itself. On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 8:53 PM, Halim Negadi hneg...@gmail.commailto:hneg...@gmail.com wrote: Softimage 2011/2012 2013 works like a charm over here on vmware workstation 9 running windows 7 workstation x64 sp1 under ubuntu 12.04 amd64. Except from a few harmless display bugs ( more often in the schematic than in actual viewports ), it's definitely workable and has decent performance. A very important thing is to make sure vmx processor acceleration is enabled in the bios and in the vm configuration to have maximum display and computing performance running your vms. The most succesfull and stable attempt to run softimage in VMs was in parallels desktop though, Very stable with almost no display bugs virtualizing windows 7 64 sp1 using parallels desktop 7 on osx lion. Never got the chance to test parallels workstation extreme ( http://www.parallels.com/products/extreme/ ) on linux because it's slightly expensive and only supported on redhat based distos as we stick on debian based ones over here. On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 7:42 PM, Gene Crucean emailgeneonthel...@gmail.commailto:emailgeneonthel...@gmail.com wrote: To be fair though... getting Softimage running on Linux in general isn't for the faint of heart. VirtualBox is cool... it's free and all. But performance wise it's quite bad. VMWareFusion is quite speedy on my home machine. It's the only way I run windows at home anymore. On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 7:08 AM, Alan Fregtman alan.fregt...@gmail.commailto:alan.fregt...@gmail.com wrote: I think there's been some confusion... At work I'm on Linux (CentOS 6.2) and my VMWare VM is virtualizing Windows 7, where Softimage runs swimmingly. Was it a VM virtualizing Linux and running Softimage that was the issue for you? I never tried that as we use Linux natively here. On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 9:58 AM, Ben Houston b...@exocortex.commailto:b...@exocortex.com wrote: Hi Alan, No way? You mean you have a VM running Softimage on Linux? What Linux OS are you running inside of the VM? Did you do anything special to get it running? I've wasted countless hours try to get the required video card drivers to work on Linux inside of a VM. I think that cumulatively Exocortex has lost at least a couple of whole days of effort trying to get to work over the last couple years -- but maybe things got better with recent version of Softimage / VMWare? Someone should make a webpage that describes the steps for VMWare or VirtualBox as that is a huge thing, especially for us plugin developers. We've been forced to buy additional PCs or do dual boot configurations. -- Best regards, Ben Houston Voice: 613-762-4113tel:613-762-4113 Skype: ben.exocortex Twitter: @exocortexcom http://Exocortex.com - Passionate CG Software Professionals. -- Gene Crucean - Emmy winning - Oscar nominated VFX Supervisor / iOS-OSX Developer / Filmmaker / Photographer ** Freelance for hire ** www.genecrucean.comhttp://www.genecrucean.com ~~ Please use my website's contact form on www.genecrucean.comhttp://www.genecrucean.com/ for any personal emails. Thanks. I may not get them at this address. ~~ attachment: winmail.dat
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I find that Softimage and other 3D apps work well in VMs when the VM is running a Windows OS. But I've had no success running Softimage and other 3D applications in a VM when it is running Linux. These days I prefer VirtulaBox over VMWare, but that is a personal preference thing. Best regards, -ben On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 9:38 AM, Ponthieux, Joseph G. (LARC-E1A)[LITES] j.ponthi...@nasa.gov wrote: Hi yall, I’m interested in knowing if anyone is successfully using Softimage, and in general all other CGI apps you might be using, in a VMWare instance? If so are there any caveats one should be aware of? -- Joey Ponthieux LaRC Information Technology Enhanced Services (LITES) Mymic Technical Services NASA Langley Research Center __ Opinions stated here-in are strictly those of the author and do not represent the opinions of NASA or any other party. -- Best regards, Ben Houston Voice: 613-762-4113 Skype: ben.exocortex Twitter: @exocortexcom http://Exocortex.com - Passionate CG Software Professionals.
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I've had the opposite experience. At work we have VMWare on Linux and it runs Softimage and other AD softwares just fine. On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 9:40 AM, Ben Houston b...@exocortex.com wrote: I find that Softimage and other 3D apps work well in VMs when the VM is running a Windows OS. But I've had no success running Softimage and other 3D applications in a VM when it is running Linux. These days I prefer VirtulaBox over VMWare, but that is a personal preference thing. Best regards, -ben On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 9:38 AM, Ponthieux, Joseph G. (LARC-E1A)[LITES] j.ponthi...@nasa.gov wrote: Hi yall, I’m interested in knowing if anyone is successfully using Softimage, and in general all other CGI apps you might be using, in a VMWare instance? If so are there any caveats one should be aware of? -- Joey Ponthieux LaRC Information Technology Enhanced Services (LITES) Mymic Technical Services NASA Langley Research Center __ Opinions stated here-in are strictly those of the author and do not represent the opinions of NASA or any other party. -- Best regards, Ben Houston Voice: 613-762-4113 Skype: ben.exocortex Twitter: @exocortexcom http://Exocortex.com - Passionate CG Software Professionals.
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Ben, Thanks, that’s sounds promising. Do you know if there are any particular hardware configuration requirements? I guess the thing I'm most concerned with is hard disk capacity and speed. -- Joey Ponthieux LaRC Information Technology Enhanced Services (LITES) Mymic Technical Services NASA Langley Research Center 6 E. Taylor St. B1244 R216A MS254 Hampton, VA, 23681 Phone: 757-864-6754 EMail: j.ponthi...@nasa.gov www.mymic.net __ Opinions stated here-in are strictly those of the author and do not represent the opinions of NASA or any other party. -Original Message- From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Ben Houston Sent: Monday, January 14, 2013 9:40 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: VM-Ware I find that Softimage and other 3D apps work well in VMs when the VM is running a Windows OS. But I've had no success running Softimage and other 3D applications in a VM when it is running Linux. These days I prefer VirtulaBox over VMWare, but that is a personal preference thing. Best regards, -ben On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 9:38 AM, Ponthieux, Joseph G. (LARC-E1A)[LITES] j.ponthi...@nasa.gov wrote: Hi yall, I’m interested in knowing if anyone is successfully using Softimage, and in general all other CGI apps you might be using, in a VMWare instance? If so are there any caveats one should be aware of? -- Joey Ponthieux LaRC Information Technology Enhanced Services (LITES) Mymic Technical Services NASA Langley Research Center __ Opinions stated here-in are strictly those of the author and do not represent the opinions of NASA or any other party. -- Best regards, Ben Houston Voice: 613-762-4113 Skype: ben.exocortex Twitter: @exocortexcom http://Exocortex.com - Passionate CG Software Professionals.
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Hi Alan, No way? You mean you have a VM running Softimage on Linux? What Linux OS are you running inside of the VM? Did you do anything special to get it running? I've wasted countless hours try to get the required video card drivers to work on Linux inside of a VM. I think that cumulatively Exocortex has lost at least a couple of whole days of effort trying to get to work over the last couple years -- but maybe things got better with recent version of Softimage / VMWare? Someone should make a webpage that describes the steps for VMWare or VirtualBox as that is a huge thing, especially for us plugin developers. We've been forced to buy additional PCs or do dual boot configurations. -- Best regards, Ben Houston Voice: 613-762-4113 Skype: ben.exocortex Twitter: @exocortexcom http://Exocortex.com - Passionate CG Software Professionals.
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Hi Joseph, I'd always recommend running an SSDs. We put our VMs on our SSDs as well (we generally give each VM a 100GB virtual disk, which takes up less than 100GB of real space) but disk space isn't a huge concern for us because we keep are large data on a fileserver. Video drivers are slower on VMs generally I have found, but maybe Alan Fregtman has a real solution to that as well. :-) Best regards, Ben Houston On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 9:54 AM, Ponthieux, Joseph G. (LARC-E1A)[LITES] j.ponthi...@nasa.gov wrote: Ben, Thanks, that’s sounds promising. Do you know if there are any particular hardware configuration requirements? I guess the thing I'm most concerned with is hard disk capacity and speed. -- Joey Ponthieux LaRC Information Technology Enhanced Services (LITES) Mymic Technical Services NASA Langley Research Center 6 E. Taylor St. B1244 R216A MS254 Hampton, VA, 23681 Phone: 757-864-6754 EMail: j.ponthi...@nasa.gov www.mymic.net __ Opinions stated here-in are strictly those of the author and do not represent the opinions of NASA or any other party. -Original Message- From: softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of Ben Houston Sent: Monday, January 14, 2013 9:40 AM To: softimage@listproc.autodesk.com Subject: Re: VM-Ware I find that Softimage and other 3D apps work well in VMs when the VM is running a Windows OS. But I've had no success running Softimage and other 3D applications in a VM when it is running Linux. These days I prefer VirtulaBox over VMWare, but that is a personal preference thing. Best regards, -ben On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 9:38 AM, Ponthieux, Joseph G. (LARC-E1A)[LITES] j.ponthi...@nasa.gov wrote: Hi yall, I’m interested in knowing if anyone is successfully using Softimage, and in general all other CGI apps you might be using, in a VMWare instance? If so are there any caveats one should be aware of? -- Joey Ponthieux LaRC Information Technology Enhanced Services (LITES) Mymic Technical Services NASA Langley Research Center __ Opinions stated here-in are strictly those of the author and do not represent the opinions of NASA or any other party. -- Best regards, Ben Houston Voice: 613-762-4113 Skype: ben.exocortex Twitter: @exocortexcom http://Exocortex.com - Passionate CG Software Professionals. -- Best regards, Ben Houston Voice: 613-762-4113 Skype: ben.exocortex Twitter: @exocortexcom http://Exocortex.com - Passionate CG Software Professionals.
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I think there's been some confusion... At work I'm on Linux (CentOS 6.2) and my VMWare VM is virtualizing Windows 7, where Softimage runs swimmingly. Was it a VM virtualizing Linux and running Softimage that was the issue for you? I never tried that as we use Linux natively here. On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 9:58 AM, Ben Houston b...@exocortex.com wrote: Hi Alan, No way? You mean you have a VM running Softimage on Linux? What Linux OS are you running inside of the VM? Did you do anything special to get it running? I've wasted countless hours try to get the required video card drivers to work on Linux inside of a VM. I think that cumulatively Exocortex has lost at least a couple of whole days of effort trying to get to work over the last couple years -- but maybe things got better with recent version of Softimage / VMWare? Someone should make a webpage that describes the steps for VMWare or VirtualBox as that is a huge thing, especially for us plugin developers. We've been forced to buy additional PCs or do dual boot configurations. -- Best regards, Ben Houston Voice: 613-762-4113 Skype: ben.exocortex Twitter: @exocortexcom http://Exocortex.com - Passionate CG Software Professionals.
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To be fair though... getting Softimage running on Linux in general isn't for the faint of heart. VirtualBox is cool... it's free and all. But performance wise it's quite bad. VMWareFusion is quite speedy on my home machine. It's the only way I run windows at home anymore. On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 7:08 AM, Alan Fregtman alan.fregt...@gmail.comwrote: I think there's been some confusion... At work I'm on Linux (CentOS 6.2) and my VMWare VM is virtualizing Windows 7, where Softimage runs swimmingly. Was it a VM virtualizing Linux and running Softimage that was the issue for you? I never tried that as we use Linux natively here. On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 9:58 AM, Ben Houston b...@exocortex.com wrote: Hi Alan, No way? You mean you have a VM running Softimage on Linux? What Linux OS are you running inside of the VM? Did you do anything special to get it running? I've wasted countless hours try to get the required video card drivers to work on Linux inside of a VM. I think that cumulatively Exocortex has lost at least a couple of whole days of effort trying to get to work over the last couple years -- but maybe things got better with recent version of Softimage / VMWare? Someone should make a webpage that describes the steps for VMWare or VirtualBox as that is a huge thing, especially for us plugin developers. We've been forced to buy additional PCs or do dual boot configurations. -- Best regards, Ben Houston Voice: 613-762-4113 Skype: ben.exocortex Twitter: @exocortexcom http://Exocortex.com - Passionate CG Software Professionals. -- Gene Crucean - Emmy winning - Oscar nominated VFX Supervisor / iOS-OSX Developer / Filmmaker / Photographer ** *Freelance for hire* ** www.genecrucean.com ~~ Please use my website's contact form on www.genecrucean.com for any personal emails. Thanks. I may not get them at this address. ~~
Re: VM-Ware
Softimage 2011/2012 2013 works like a charm over here on vmware workstation 9 running windows 7 workstation x64 sp1 under ubuntu 12.04 amd64. Except from a few harmless display bugs ( more often in the schematic than in actual viewports ), it's definitely workable and has decent performance. A very important thing is to make sure vmx processor acceleration is enabled in the bios and in the vm configuration to have maximum display and computing performance running your vms. The most succesfull and stable attempt to run softimage in VMs was in parallels desktop though, Very stable with almost no display bugs virtualizing windows 7 64 sp1 using parallels desktop 7 on osx lion. Never got the chance to test parallels workstation extreme ( http://www.parallels.com/products/extreme/ ) on linux because it's slightly expensive and only supported on redhat based distos as we stick on debian based ones over here. On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 7:42 PM, Gene Crucean emailgeneonthel...@gmail.comwrote: To be fair though... getting Softimage running on Linux in general isn't for the faint of heart. VirtualBox is cool... it's free and all. But performance wise it's quite bad. VMWareFusion is quite speedy on my home machine. It's the only way I run windows at home anymore. On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 7:08 AM, Alan Fregtman alan.fregt...@gmail.comwrote: I think there's been some confusion... At work I'm on Linux (CentOS 6.2) and my VMWare VM is virtualizing Windows 7, where Softimage runs swimmingly. Was it a VM virtualizing Linux and running Softimage that was the issue for you? I never tried that as we use Linux natively here. On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 9:58 AM, Ben Houston b...@exocortex.com wrote: Hi Alan, No way? You mean you have a VM running Softimage on Linux? What Linux OS are you running inside of the VM? Did you do anything special to get it running? I've wasted countless hours try to get the required video card drivers to work on Linux inside of a VM. I think that cumulatively Exocortex has lost at least a couple of whole days of effort trying to get to work over the last couple years -- but maybe things got better with recent version of Softimage / VMWare? Someone should make a webpage that describes the steps for VMWare or VirtualBox as that is a huge thing, especially for us plugin developers. We've been forced to buy additional PCs or do dual boot configurations. -- Best regards, Ben Houston Voice: 613-762-4113 Skype: ben.exocortex Twitter: @exocortexcom http://Exocortex.com - Passionate CG Software Professionals. -- Gene Crucean - Emmy winning - Oscar nominated VFX Supervisor / iOS-OSX Developer / Filmmaker / Photographer ** *Freelance for hire* ** www.genecrucean.com ~~ Please use my website's contact form on www.genecrucean.com for any personal emails. Thanks. I may not get them at this address. ~~
Re: VM-Ware
While working within linux environments, I personnally find more enjoyable using Softimage running in a windows VM than the linux version itself. On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 8:53 PM, Halim Negadi hneg...@gmail.com wrote: Softimage 2011/2012 2013 works like a charm over here on vmware workstation 9 running windows 7 workstation x64 sp1 under ubuntu 12.04 amd64. Except from a few harmless display bugs ( more often in the schematic than in actual viewports ), it's definitely workable and has decent performance. A very important thing is to make sure vmx processor acceleration is enabled in the bios and in the vm configuration to have maximum display and computing performance running your vms. The most succesfull and stable attempt to run softimage in VMs was in parallels desktop though, Very stable with almost no display bugs virtualizing windows 7 64 sp1 using parallels desktop 7 on osx lion. Never got the chance to test parallels workstation extreme ( http://www.parallels.com/products/extreme/ ) on linux because it's slightly expensive and only supported on redhat based distos as we stick on debian based ones over here. On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 7:42 PM, Gene Crucean emailgeneonthel...@gmail.com wrote: To be fair though... getting Softimage running on Linux in general isn't for the faint of heart. VirtualBox is cool... it's free and all. But performance wise it's quite bad. VMWareFusion is quite speedy on my home machine. It's the only way I run windows at home anymore. On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 7:08 AM, Alan Fregtman alan.fregt...@gmail.comwrote: I think there's been some confusion... At work I'm on Linux (CentOS 6.2) and my VMWare VM is virtualizing Windows 7, where Softimage runs swimmingly. Was it a VM virtualizing Linux and running Softimage that was the issue for you? I never tried that as we use Linux natively here. On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 9:58 AM, Ben Houston b...@exocortex.com wrote: Hi Alan, No way? You mean you have a VM running Softimage on Linux? What Linux OS are you running inside of the VM? Did you do anything special to get it running? I've wasted countless hours try to get the required video card drivers to work on Linux inside of a VM. I think that cumulatively Exocortex has lost at least a couple of whole days of effort trying to get to work over the last couple years -- but maybe things got better with recent version of Softimage / VMWare? Someone should make a webpage that describes the steps for VMWare or VirtualBox as that is a huge thing, especially for us plugin developers. We've been forced to buy additional PCs or do dual boot configurations. -- Best regards, Ben Houston Voice: 613-762-4113 Skype: ben.exocortex Twitter: @exocortexcom http://Exocortex.com - Passionate CG Software Professionals. -- Gene Crucean - Emmy winning - Oscar nominated VFX Supervisor / iOS-OSX Developer / Filmmaker / Photographer ** *Freelance for hire* ** www.genecrucean.com ~~ Please use my website's contact form on www.genecrucean.com for any personal emails. Thanks. I may not get them at this address. ~~
