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T3Permalink Reply by Richard Boyhan on December 31, 2012 at 2:50am

I run VM Fusion and Windows XP on my Mac to access the mission planner. I find having a copy of Windows is handy since there are other programs that help in all sorts of ways.
Good Luck and Happy New Year,
Richard

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Permalink Reply by Mike Boland on December 31, 2012 at 12:54pm

I agree with Richard,

Fusion on the Mac is the best solution I have come across, especially as you can run in 'Unity' and just have the app running without the windoze desktop. 

Running Win7 at the moment and everything works well (enough) although it would be better native Mac.

Been developing on Apple for 30 years so I am a bit biased :-)

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Permalink Reply by Chad Hill on December 31, 2012 at 2:19pm

Parallels works OK too, for mission planner running on win 7, can also do no win background, though I prefer to run windows on a second virtual desktop (space?) and not use "coherence". 

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Permalink Reply by Jimmy robson on December 31, 2012 at 9:13pm

thanks heaps guys, i was originally runnign xp pro with parrelells but ran into major problems, will have alook at VM fusion 

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DeveloperPermalink Reply by Bill Bonney on January 1, 2013 at 11:07pm

Also check out Virtual Box, as it is open source and free to use see https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

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Permalink Reply by Luke Olson on January 2, 2013 at 5:10am

Plus one for VirtualBox in general, I use it very frequently with Linux. Though I haven't tried using it with the Mission Planner and connecting to the APM.

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Permalink Reply by Mike Boland on January 2, 2013 at 1:21pm

I did find VirtualBox a bit fiddly with drivers and not as transparent to the serial and USB ports as Fusion.

If you use something like Linux then it's setup and feeding is probably fine as you are used to tweaking this and that to keep things working, but I needed a VM that just ran and did the job (I was a contract developer at the time I went through all the VM's available looking for a solid one once MS bought and killed off Virtual PC).

Fusion is the most Mac like VM that I could find.

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Permalink Reply by Justin N on April 3, 2013 at 8:04pm

If I install Xplane on my mac will it be able to connect to the mission planner running in VM Fusion on the same mac?

Justin

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DeveloperPermalink Reply by Kevin Hester on April 3, 2013 at 8:11pm

yes - but you'll need to be careful about the network config of the VM (to avoid having the VM make a NAT).

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