VMware fusion: rhino/carara5/ hex/ zbrush - Polyloop

dooki · 21st May 2008, 19:20

Hey computer gurus,

Finally got an intel mac and I'm trying to figure things out. Does anyone know if VMware (w/XP home on it) will work with these apps? I have read threads regarding Parallels not working. I also understand that Bootcamp will work. I'm just curios about VMware. Thanks.

Oh, and when I do set up boot camp I understand I need to partition a certain amount for the PC side. Any advice on this?? Thanks.

-Dooki

Tartiflette · 21st May 2008, 19:50

Hi !

I don't know for ZBrush and Rhino but Carrara and Hexagon are working pretty well on VMWare, as well as ProjectMessiah and also XSI !

I can't see why either Rhino or ZBrush wouldn't run well on VMWare since XSI is a pretty big program and run without any problem, using the 2 cores of my iMac here.

Cheers,
Laurent aka Tartiflette

rickei · 21st May 2008, 20:38

I think zbrush runs fine on VMware. but I don't have any personal experience.

the partition is up to you. parallels defaults to a 8gb partition and may people say that is plenty. Don't worry you can change the partition size any time you want

dooki · 21st May 2008, 21:52

I knew I would get good and quick advice. Thanks.

Yeah I've been reading that VMware tends to work better than Parallels. Any thoughts on this??

-Dooki

Teteille · 21st May 2008, 22:40

I have used the demo of zbrush 3.1 with WMware Fusion on my IMAC alu and It worked fine (I'm a beginner with zbrush)

jbshorty · 21st May 2008, 22:51

dooki, post your question on the Rhino NG, and i'm sure you will have this answered in a few minutes... I've read that Rhino will run fine under Parallels but personally i can't say for sure...

jonah

dooki · 22nd May 2008, 07:03

THanks Shorty. Will do.

-Dooki

Thomas · 22nd May 2008, 13:36

ZBrush is working with VMware, Parallels and Bootcamp without any problems. The best is always bootcamp anyway. The only trick to know is to activate the trailing mouse in the mouse parameters or you won't see your cursor under Zbrush with your pen tablet (and I think all the other software which are using the pen tablet..)

dooki · 26th May 2008, 19:09

THanks Jonah and Thomgas.

I went to the Rhino boards and found that Rhino does run under VMware. I ordered my disks of VMware and XP and excited to try it out!

-Dooki

gugesbri · 28th May 2008, 22:49

I'm running Carrara 5.1 on VMware.
Runs great, but, I'm running a quad core Xeon box and VMware only uses one processor.

Either way run, it runs great.
Cheers

Tartiflette · 28th May 2008, 23:30

Quote:

Originally Posted by gugesbri

I'm running Carrara 5.1 on VMware.
Runs great, but, I'm running a quad core Xeon box and VMware only uses one processor...

No, no, you can set it to use two processors in the preferences.

Note that you can't actually use more than 2 processors/cores but it's already really great when using them in multithreaded applications.

Cheers,
Laurent aka Tartiflette

gugesbri · 29th May 2008, 03:03

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tartiflette

No, no, you can set it to use two processors in the preferences.

Note that you can't actually use more than 2 processors/cores but it's already really great when using them in multithreaded applications.

Cheers,
Laurent aka Tartiflette

REALLY??!!!

I'm going to try it!

Thank you.

Goose

dooki · 19th June 2008, 02:14

Hey all,

Well I got ZB3 to work on bootcamp, but in VMware it asks me to activate again. I emailed ZB support and they thought the ZB would not work on the both partitians. If I were to activate through VMware I would have to activate again through bootcamp.

For those of you who run ZB on VMware how did you handle the activation issue? Much thanks!

BTW, I agree that ZB is better in BC but there are times when I want a quick hit of ZB and don't want to reboot.

-Dooki

Thomas · 19th June 2008, 12:48

It use one activation in bootcamp and another in VMware (or parallels). you have two activation by default, then you can use both of them

Don't forget to remove your activation (in the plugin menu) if you decided to not using Zbrush in one or other solution.
I use Zbrush with bootcam, VMWare and parallels without problems.

dooki · 19th June 2008, 19:43

THanks Thomas.

The strange thing is that in VMware ZB asks me to either activate via online or enter activation code, which is what I am doing. ZB does not accept it. This is why I asked ZB support and this is when they made the comment above.

Not sure what you mean by remove activation. You mean if I want to use ZB in VM I need to remove my activation in BC? Thanks for your help.

-Dooki

21st May 2008, 19:20	#1 (permalink)
dooki Box modeling Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Northern Calif. Posts: 273	VMware fusion: rhino/carara5/ hex/ zbrush Hey computer gurus, Finally got an intel mac and I'm trying to figure things out. Does anyone know if VMware (w/XP home on it) will work with these apps? I have read threads regarding Parallels not working. I also understand that Bootcamp will work. I'm just curios about VMware. Thanks. Oh, and when I do set up boot camp I understand I need to partition a certain amount for the PC side. Any advice on this?? Thanks. -Dooki __________________ PC/ P4/ /XP/ 2.4GHz/ 512RAM/ ATI Radeon 9550/256RAM Macbook Pro/Leopard/2.4GHz/4RAM/NVIDIA 8600M (256MB) eMac/ G4/Tiger/ 1.25 GHz/ 768RAM/ ATI Radeon 9200

21st May 2008, 21:52	#4 (permalink)
dooki Box modeling Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Northern Calif. Posts: 273	I knew I would get good and quick advice. Thanks. Yeah I've been reading that VMware tends to work better than Parallels. Any thoughts on this?? -Dooki __________________ PC/ P4/ /XP/ 2.4GHz/ 512RAM/ ATI Radeon 9550/256RAM Macbook Pro/Leopard/2.4GHz/4RAM/NVIDIA 8600M (256MB) eMac/ G4/Tiger/ 1.25 GHz/ 768RAM/ ATI Radeon 9200

21st May 2008, 22:40	#5 (permalink)
Teteille couaco mé kiki ? Join Date: Jan 2004 Location: Suisse Posts: 2,507	I have used the demo of zbrush 3.1 with WMware Fusion on my IMAC alu and It worked fine (I'm a beginner with zbrush) __________________ Sylvain "Douter de tout ou tout croire, ce sont deux solutions également commodes, qui l'une et l'autre nous dispensent de réfléchir." H. Poincaré configuration: IMAC alu 24" Intel core duo 2.4GHz 4Go de RAM OSX 10.4.10 / G5 2x2GHz 1.5 Go de RAM OSX 10.4.x Amapi pro 7.16, Hexagon 2 , Carrara 5.1 pro

22nd May 2008, 07:03	#7 (permalink)
dooki Box modeling Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Northern Calif. Posts: 273	THanks Shorty. Will do. -Dooki __________________ PC/ P4/ /XP/ 2.4GHz/ 512RAM/ ATI Radeon 9550/256RAM Macbook Pro/Leopard/2.4GHz/4RAM/NVIDIA 8600M (256MB) eMac/ G4/Tiger/ 1.25 GHz/ 768RAM/ ATI Radeon 9200

22nd May 2008, 13:36	#8 (permalink)
Thomas Always learning new stuff Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Merignac, France Posts: 11,323	ZBrush is working with VMware, Parallels and Bootcamp without any problems. The best is always bootcamp anyway. The only trick to know is to activate the trailing mouse in the mouse parameters or you won't see your cursor under Zbrush with your pen tablet (and I think all the other software which are using the pen tablet..) __________________ Polyloop owner & Administrator - no support by PM or email. Polyloop [EN/FR] - Meuuh [FR +16 ans] - Totyo [FR] - Pixologic [JOB] - Le ZBlog [JOB] - La3dpourlesnuls [FR]

21st May 2008, 19:50	#2 (permalink)
Tartiflette Bob dans Monsters, Inc Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Lussan, Gard Posts: 2,072	Hi ! I don't know for ZBrush and Rhino but Carrara and Hexagon are working pretty well on VMWare, as well as ProjectMessiah and also XSI ! I can't see why either Rhino or ZBrush wouldn't run well on VMWare since XSI is a pretty big program and run without any problem, using the 2 cores of my iMac here. Cheers, Laurent aka Tartiflette

21st May 2008, 20:38	#3 (permalink)
rickei Respect the Dawg! Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: USA - Conway, South Carolina Posts: 791	I think zbrush runs fine on VMware. but I don't have any personal experience. the partition is up to you. parallels defaults to a 8gb partition and may people say that is plenty. Don't worry you can change the partition size any time you want

21st May 2008, 22:51	#6 (permalink)
jbshorty proud to be a nurb Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: only in your mind Posts: 1,376	dooki, post your question on the Rhino NG, and i'm sure you will have this answered in a few minutes... I've read that Rhino will run fine under Parallels but personally i can't say for sure... jonah

26th May 2008, 19:09	#9 (permalink)
dooki Box modeling Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Northern Calif. Posts: 273	THanks Jonah and Thomgas. I went to the Rhino boards and found that Rhino does run under VMware. I ordered my disks of VMware and XP and excited to try it out! -Dooki __________________ PC/ P4/ /XP/ 2.4GHz/ 512RAM/ ATI Radeon 9550/256RAM Macbook Pro/Leopard/2.4GHz/4RAM/NVIDIA 8600M (256MB) eMac/ G4/Tiger/ 1.25 GHz/ 768RAM/ ATI Radeon 9200

28th May 2008, 22:49	#10 (permalink)
gugesbri NURBS Booleans are your friend Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 128	I'm running Carrara 5.1 on VMware. Runs great, but, I'm running a quad core Xeon box and VMware only uses one processor. Either way run, it runs great. Cheers

19th June 2008, 02:14	#13 (permalink)
dooki Box modeling Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Northern Calif. Posts: 273	Hey all, Well I got ZB3 to work on bootcamp, but in VMware it asks me to activate again. I emailed ZB support and they thought the ZB would not work on the both partitians. If I were to activate through VMware I would have to activate again through bootcamp. For those of you who run ZB on VMware how did you handle the activation issue? Much thanks! BTW, I agree that ZB is better in BC but there are times when I want a quick hit of ZB and don't want to reboot. -Dooki __________________ PC/ P4/ /XP/ 2.4GHz/ 512RAM/ ATI Radeon 9550/256RAM Macbook Pro/Leopard/2.4GHz/4RAM/NVIDIA 8600M (256MB) eMac/ G4/Tiger/ 1.25 GHz/ 768RAM/ ATI Radeon 9200

19th June 2008, 12:48	#14 (permalink)
Thomas Always learning new stuff Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Merignac, France Posts: 11,323	It use one activation in bootcamp and another in VMware (or parallels). you have two activation by default, then you can use both of them Don't forget to remove your activation (in the plugin menu) if you decided to not using Zbrush in one or other solution. I use Zbrush with bootcam, VMWare and parallels without problems. __________________ Polyloop owner & Administrator - no support by PM or email. Polyloop [EN/FR] - Meuuh [FR +16 ans] - Totyo [FR] - Pixologic [JOB] - Le ZBlog [JOB] - La3dpourlesnuls [FR]

19th June 2008, 19:43	#15 (permalink)
dooki Box modeling Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Northern Calif. Posts: 273	THanks Thomas. The strange thing is that in VMware ZB asks me to either activate via online or enter activation code, which is what I am doing. ZB does not accept it. This is why I asked ZB support and this is when they made the comment above. Not sure what you mean by remove activation. You mean if I want to use ZB in VM I need to remove my activation in BC? Thanks for your help. -Dooki __________________ PC/ P4/ /XP/ 2.4GHz/ 512RAM/ ATI Radeon 9550/256RAM Macbook Pro/Leopard/2.4GHz/4RAM/NVIDIA 8600M (256MB) eMac/ G4/Tiger/ 1.25 GHz/ 768RAM/ ATI Radeon 9200

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