How to get Winuae working on parallels 5 for mac?

[Leffmann]

Originally Posted by Pyromania

If you want to run WinUAE on Intel Mac hardware and have it work at all or reliably it only works via Bootcamp.

This is not true. I have the 13" Macbook Pro from mid 2009 and I run WinUAE in full frame rate under both Sun VirtualBox and VMWare Fusion.

With the latter you can use the Unity feature to get rid of the Windows desktop and have WinUAE appear directly in OSX. The keyboard and mouse input takes a while go get used to (some input will always go to OSX rather than WinUAE) but other than that you get WinUAE with its full GUI running like it was an OSX app.

[Retro1234]

Originally Posted by Leffmann

This is not true. I have the 13" Macbook Pro from mid 2009 and I run WinUAE in full frame rate under both Sun VirtualBox and VMWare Fusion.

With the latter you can use the Unity feature to get rid of the Windows desktop and have WinUAE appear directly in OSX. The keyboard and mouse input takes a while go get used to (some input will always go to OSX rather than WinUAE) but other than that you get WinUAE with its full GUI running like it was an OSX app.

The Unity feature looks Very good - What about accessing files from you Mac harddrive
Like loading an ADF stored on you Mac drive under WinUae?

[Leffmann]

Originally Posted by Boo Boo

The Unity feature looks Very good - What about accessing files from you Mac harddrive
Like loading an ADF stored on you Mac drive under WinUae?

You can share any OSX folder with the Windows environment, and it will pop up in the network. Add a shortcut to it and it will appear like any other folder.

[AmigaFriend]

Originally Posted by Leffmann

This is not true. I have the 13" Macbook Pro from mid 2009 and I run WinUAE in full frame rate under both Sun VirtualBox and VMWare Fusion.

With the latter you can use the Unity feature to get rid of the Windows desktop and have WinUAE appear directly in OSX. The keyboard and mouse input takes a while go get used to (some input will always go to OSX rather than WinUAE) but other than that you get WinUAE with its full GUI running like it was an OSX app.

I absolutely second this. I've used WinUAE in Fusion since 2007 with absolutely no apparent loss of performance in a 15" Macbook Pro. With more tight support for the latest DX versions on more recent Fusion and Paralells that support latest pixel shader version, compatibility and performance can only improve.

I recently installed Fusion 3.1 with Win7 on a iMac 27" and Winuae performs as well as in my i7 Win7 box.

Performance would not be an issue. Anything wrong would be installation/OS/missing libraries as advised.

I only have experience with Fusion though.

[RabidRabbit]

I know BootCamp would be the way to go but having to switch between windows and OSX with a reset is time-consuming and a pain. Although, I am tempted to have a windows partition just to run my WinUAE

I don`t have Vmware fusion yet. Once I get the opportunity, i`ll install SP2 on my parallel windows partition and let you guys know if it works or not.

[TCD]

Originally Posted by RabidRabbit

I don`t have Vmware fusion yet. Once I get the opportunity, i`ll install SP2 on my parallel windows partition and let you guys know if it works or not.

...and then update it to SP3 of course

[RabidRabbit]

Originally Posted by TheCyberDruid

...and then update it to SP3 of course

Do you need SP3 to run Winuae?

[TCD]

No, but you wouldn't want to encounter any problems because your Windows isn't up to date. Really update it first, then work with it (even if you only use it for WinUAE).

[RabidRabbit]

Just an update.

After installing SP2, WinUAE boots up fine. I still haven't run anything on it yet (due to having to go to work of all things...GRRR) but its looking promising.

Thanks for the help guys!

[Toni Wilen]

Better install SP3, SP2 isn't supported anymore and sooner or later you have similar problems again

[TCD]

Hmm, Deja Vu time Yes, please do yourself a favour and don't ignore the advice(s).

[RabidRabbit]

Heh, all this just to get a few programs running on my virtual windows machine

See, if there was a Mac version.....

[TCD]

Originally Posted by RabidRabbit

See, if there was a Mac version.....

http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=52712
http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=52842
Just in case you missed it.

[Pyromania]

Originally Posted by Leffmann

This is not true. I have the 13" Macbook Pro from mid 2009 and I run WinUAE in full frame rate under both Sun VirtualBox and VMWare Fusion.

With the latter you can use the Unity feature to get rid of the Windows desktop and have WinUAE appear directly in OSX. The keyboard and mouse input takes a while go get used to (some input will always go to OSX rather than WinUAE) but other than that you get WinUAE with its full GUI running like it was an OSX app.

Very cool, so things have improve a lot since I tried. I gave up a while ago and went the Bootcamp route. Glad to see it is working now for some.

[RabidRabbit]

Just another update.

All files now added and installed Workbench etc.

All works like a dream! It runs phenomenally fast and all without having to use Boot Camp.

Edit: Hard files etc all work too. I was able to copy all my old configurations over and no worries at all.