Vegas 8 on MacBook Pro with VMWare Fusion??

kirkdickinson wrote on 11/30/2007, 9:06 AM
I know that this isn't a Mac or VMWare forum, but maybe someone else has gotten this to work with Vegas 8. ?!?

Has anybody gotten Vegas 8 to run on a Mac? I have been trying to get it to work on my MacBook Pro in a VMWare Fusion virtual session.

I have an XP SP2 virtual machine with Fusion in OS 10.5.1. Vegas will run if I have only small files in my project. However if the files get bigger or I try to access the shared space on my Mac, Fusion locks up. It locks up so hard that I usually have to force kill.

I can open Vegas and start a project, but when I try to add large files to the timeline, and I need to browse to the "Shared Folders on Host". It locks up while browsing - if I use Vegas's Browser.

If I use the explorer, I can browse to the files and actually see them and copy them to the Virtual PC. But I can't place them into Vegas from the Explorer like I should be able to do.

When I try to restart the XP session, I get this message: "Failed to get exclusive lock on the configuration file. Another vmware process could be running using this configuration file." Then it says "Cannot find a valid peer process to connect to."

I have to restart the Mac to clear up things before I can get back into that XP session.

Any ideas? Is there some setting that isn't allowing Vegas to work properly, or am I just dreaming, thinking that I could get a video editing program running in a virtual Xp session on my Mac?

Fusion is actually locked up so hard that my Dock won't pop up in other spaces. (dock set to automatically hide and show)

Thanks,

Kirk

Comments

Coursedesign wrote on 11/30/2007, 9:17 AM
From what I have heard second hand, in your situation you'd be better off with Vista than XP if you're running Leopard (10.5).

But let's check a few other things first:

What happens if you run Vegas 8 in Bootcamp on your machine?

Would the "small files" be "less than 4GB?"
kirkdickinson wrote on 11/30/2007, 12:30 PM
Well, the small files that I put in the timeline were saved inside the virtual drive, and were very small. Photoshop photos, mp3 audio, small mpg clips, less than 100MB.

The bigger files that I was trying to access weren't' saved inside the virtual machine, but on my shared space on the mac drive. I can't even browse to them from Vegas without it locking up Fusion. I copied one of the bigger files using explorer from the shared space to the virtual space and when I try to place it, I also end up with a lockup.

There may be something wrong with my virtual machine though, I don't know for sure. It shows files that are in project media as offline even when they are in the virtual drive.

This is a little confusing to me, and maybe I should quit even trying to get it to run.

Kirk

Cheno wrote on 11/30/2007, 1:40 PM
I had a hard time running VMware Fusion on my MacPro even as a trial - virtual drives were weird and there was no support for firewire not to mention dual monitor issues.

I haven't tried it on my MacBook Pro but basically gave up on anything but bootcamp for the time. I don't think Fusion or Parallels are ready for video editing programs yet. IMO

cheno
kirkdickinson wrote on 11/30/2007, 1:48 PM
OK,

Well, I didn't need firewire. I already had the video captured. I was just trying to do some minor editing to the veg at the customers location.

I hoped that I could get it to work on the laptop for that reason only.

Oh well, scrap that idea for now.

I may play with bootcamp later.

Kirk
Coursedesign wrote on 11/30/2007, 1:57 PM
Bootcamp is generally better for more complex apps with a lot of I/O, but Parallels has enjoyed a one year headstart over Fusion, it just seems to run better.