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nigelj
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2013-05-31 09:41
    Hopefully someone will have some experience of this...

    I have a MacBook Pro with Capture 2.10.16...it runs fine. I have Windows 7 installed in a Bootcamp partition, and use vmware to run MacOSX and Windows side by side. I have Capture and MagicQ installed on both Mac and Windows. In my experience MagicQ on the Mac is not very good...quite clunky, and mouse response is pretty poor.

    Now, I'm using MagicQ with a PC Wing for my next show and will run it with the Mac booted straight into Windows, as MagicQ runs well like this, BUT for programming I want to use MagicQ with Capture (I have the stage/rig built already).

    My problem is that no matter what I do with the Capture and MagicQ settings, when I'm running Capture on the Mac and MagicQ on Windows in vmware, I can't get Capture to respond. This only applies when I'm trying to run both on my Mac using vmware; if I'm running both in Windows or both in OSX all is OK (although MagicQ response under Mac alongside Capture is absolutely awful), and if I run Capture on another PC on my network that's also fine.

    Anyone had similar issues with Mac/Windows/vmware/MagicQ like this, and succeeded in getting it all working?

    Cheers.

    (also posted on the MagicQ forum)

    Lars Wernlund
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    2013-05-31 09:43
    Hi nigelj,

    This is 99% a VM-ware network configuration problem. You will want to read up on the networking options (NAT / bridged etc) of VM-ware to resolve the problem.
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    nigelj
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    2013-05-31 09:51
    I thought you might say that!

    I'm no expert on vmware/networking...it works on installation (apart from this issue) so I've never looked too closely! Can you from your experience point me to the protocol I need to use?

    Lars Wernlund
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    2013-05-31 10:15
    Hi, Frankly it's difficult to say, and maybe it's more efficient to simply just try some options I think if you're running in NAT mode youre chances of success will be good if you change to Bridge mode!
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    Capture Visualisation AB

    nigelj
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    2013-05-31 10:44
    Lars Wernlund wrote:
    ...youre chances of success will be good if you change to Bridge mode!


    I reckon so too...I just switched the networking to Bridged so now the vmware/windows side has the same IP range as the Mac. I'll test later but I'm sure will be OK now.

    Cheers
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