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>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] 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.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.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.com<mailto: > 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<tel: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<http://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. ~~ > > >
