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CircuitStudio on a VM

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frog over 9 years ago

My favourite desktop machine runs Linux so I'm attempting to use CircuitStudio in a VirtualBox VM running Windows 7 Pro.  The installation went OK and CircuitStudio appears to be generally working except that PCBs aren't rendered.  I've heard a plausible rumour that this is to do with the (presumably incomplete) DirectX support provided by Virtualbox, although I've enabled 2D and 3D acceleration, so I'd hope that the VM will have the same graphics capabilities as the host machine.

 

Any suggestions, or ideas as to what exactly is preventing PCB rendering from working?

 

Thanks,

Frog

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  • frog
    frog over 9 years ago in reply to harvie256 +2
    It's working! For the benefit of other users, here's my configuration: Physical machine is an Asus B85M motherboard, G3240 CPU, 8GB RAM, running Ubuntu 16.04LTS 64-bit. I'm using the onboard graphics controller…
  • shabaz
    shabaz over 9 years ago in reply to Former Member +1 suggested
    Hi Frog, As I understand hypervisors will not provide the same native graphics acceleration unless a technology like DirectPath I/O is used. And that is not supported by all hypervisors, at least not by…
  • harvie256
    harvie256 over 9 years ago in reply to Former Member +1
    My experience with CS in a VM is it working fine. Details as follows: Host: Win 10, Nvidia card VM: Win 7, 4gb RAM, Video Accel enabled VMware Workstation 11
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    0 Former Member over 9 years ago

    Hi

    There isn't any documentation that I am aware of that states Circuit Studio will actually run on a VM.

    But it is a very good question and I am sure many other Linux supporters would be keen to know.

     

    I will ask Altium directly about this for you.

     

    Thanks

     

     

    Carl

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    0 Former Member over 9 years ago

    Hi

    There isn't any documentation that I am aware of that states Circuit Studio will actually run on a VM.

    But it is a very good question and I am sure many other Linux supporters would be keen to know.

     

    I will ask Altium directly about this for you.

     

    Thanks

     

     

    Carl

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