Hi
Wonder if anyone has sucessfully implemented FlexSim on Virtual Machine. If so, possible to share some insight?
Thanks
David
David,
I myself have tried with Oracle's VirtualBox and I do know of a university using it in a class room on VMs.
The problem is that the VM software in general is not able to route the dedicated graphics card into the VM. That didn't matter to me, since I only tried out communication things between two FlexSim instances. The university uses it for teaching, so the models are fairly small, which works fine without dedicated graphics support. In a commercial environment I would stay away from that.
My experience is from 2015, so I do not now, how the tools have changed in terms of graphics hardware acceleration support.
Good luck
Ralf
Here is some information about using your graphics card with a virtual machine:
VirtualBox:
How To Enable 3D Acceleration and Use Windows Aero in VirtualBox
Enable graphics card in VirtualBox
PCI passthrough (experimental)
VMware:
@Jacob Gillespie Based on the information provided, am I right to say that there is no issue in running FlexSim on a VM?
David
No. You can say that when appropriately configured, you might be able to get graphics acceleration on a virtual machine that might work with FlexSim.
FlexSim will run under almost any Windows environment, but if you want graphics acceleration, it requires a fair amount of configuration that is specific to your particular circumstance of how you are trying to set up your virtual machine.
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