WinUAE on VMWare Fusion 3 - how?
 

I've seen people say they're running WinUAE on VMware Fusion 3 (e.g. chiark here), but it just doesn't work for me. Older versions immediately pop up an alert saying "DirectX 8 or newer required" (even though I'm running 9.0c, which is installed by the VMware Tools). Newer versions (including 2.1.0) pop up an alert box that has nothing but an OK button in it.

What's the secret?

Yes, I know E-UAE works quite happily on a Mac (probably better than WinUAE will in Fusion if I ever get it working), but that's not that point :)

post winuaebootlog.txt

Did you try installing DirectX first, and then the VMWare Tools?

The VMWare Tools are ~45 Mb in size. At a guess there's not a DirectX 9 distribution in there, but just the necessary bits to modify an existing install. Other Virtualization tools go about it this way.

Not sure if all versions of VMWare support DirectX, but I know VMWare Player does as I've got it working on there (9.0c).

DirectX 9.0c definitely seems to be installed and working correctly, as dxdiag finds it, and it passes all the diagnostics.

I can't post winuaebootlog.txt, because I can't generate it-- 'winuae.exe -log' doesn't seem to produce any log output before the empty error dialog appears.

What if you run older version with -log? (version that does more than opens the dialog)

I tried 0.8.24, which gives the legible "Need DirectX 8 or newer" message, but I can't see a log file from that either-- at least not anywhere I can find it. (I checked in the same folder as the .exe, and in c:\program files\documents and settings\all users\amiga files ... where should it be?)

Never mind, problem solved... seems I had old versions of d3d8.dll and d3dthk.dll lying around in windows/system32 that it didn't like. As soon as I removed those, it was happy again.