It worked for me perfectly using Parallels, speed wise is perfect but there is one thing to take in account, you need more memory as you are holding both operating systems plus the software, render data, etc…
And two, you are sharing the memory card of your graphics card (you can fine-tune this) but I felt this was the key limiting factor for me, big big scenes overflow the 2Gb Graphcs card I have… :-P Other than that it is actually extremely fun to virtualise Softimage, you can share data between systems, your devices (usb keys for example) are going to be piped wherever you want… etc… truly amazing. And also you can make your mac video capture record your Softimage session and still the machine works perfectly so there is a lot of power under the bonet. So, my conclusion is that if you are going to do power user work it is better to bootcamp as a solution, if you are doing production work but does not require massive amount of graphics card memory you are better of with Parallels. hope that helps. Jordi Bares jordiba...@gmail.com On 21 Jan 2014, at 18:40, David Rivera <activemotionpictu...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hi list, I talked to an IT guy the other day. > He says that the MAC/WIN problem with softimage could be solved by > virtualizing > the MAC so Softimage can run in it. > > So I suggested that virtualization probably won´t take full advantage of the > graphics > card (as it is only an emulator of a "safe" display for windows in any case). > So we agreed on making heavy-test-renders to see that point happen. > > In any case, are there any other solutions to installing Softimage into Mac > stations? > I´ve been googling and found no good - liable results. > > If anyone on the list with experience on network rendering / installing shares > his/her experience on a softimage environment on MAC, would be greatly > appreaciated. > > Thanks. > Cheers. > > David.
