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.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. ~~ >>> >>> >>> >> >
