Phoenix & XP Professional

[Dasco]

Hi - I've installed Vmware on my iMac with XP Professional; but Phoenix will not run. Has anyone else had a problem with this - Any ideas for a work-around?

[zagiman]

I'm running XP Home on my iMac with no issues.

Any error messages?

[Dasco]

Thanks for your reply. Can you confirm that you're running XP Professional or XP Home?
The error msg that I get is "Phoenix has encounted an error and will close don. We apologise for any....."

[TheBum]

Is your Phoenix completely up to date? I had a problem early-on with it dying when I ran XP Home in Parallels, but it runs OK now...not great, but OK. I am running it from a Boot Camp partition, though.

[HFG]

I've run phoenix on VMware but it just ran so slow, you will have to boot into bootcamp to run it properly.

[zagiman]

Thanks for your reply. Can you confirm that you're running XP Professional or XP Home?
The error msg that I get is "Phoenix has encounted an error and will close don. We apologise for any....."

Yes, XP Home but, it should still run in XP Professional. As suggested above, did you get all the updates? I've read that people have gotten install problem solved by completely uninstalling and then reinstalling.

[Dasco]

FWIW - I contacted Phoenix today and received the following reply:

Currently Phoenix is only guaranteed to work on Intel-based Macintosh machines running on Windows XP under the Bootcamp system, and is not currently tested under the VMware system.

Response time and helpfulness was fantastic.

[mjbrands]

As far as I know, Phoenix will run with WIndows XP under Parallels (not VMware). I haven't tested this, but I could if someone is really interested.

Anyway, with Bootcamp (part of OSX Leopard these days) it will probably run a lot better.

[TheBum]

As far as I know, Phoenix will run with WIndows XP under Parallels (not VMware). I haven't tested this, but I could if someone is really interested.
No need, unless you're talking about testing it with VMWare. See my post above.

Anyway, with Bootcamp (part of OSX Leopard these days) it will probably run a lot better.
No "probably" about it. It runs *much* better.

[raylepper]

I run Phoenix in bootcamp, too but it would be nice to flip over to windows instead of rebooting.
I wonder if this upgrade (http://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/2008/07/safer-stronger.html) of VMware will be the silver bullet. I'm not holding my breath.

[TheBum]

I run Phoenix in bootcamp, too but it would be nice to flip over to windows instead of rebooting.
I wonder if this upgrade (http://blogs.vmware.com/teamfusion/2008/07/safer-stronger.html) of VMware will be the silver bullet. I'm not holding my breath.
I'd be interested in finding that out too, although the one problem with VMWare is that it won't boot a Boot Camp partition, so I'd have to locate my Windows install disc (no minor feat) and build a virtual machine file on my nearly full hard drive.

[jeffk]

I wouldn't count on any updates to VMWare or Parallels to improve performance over Bootcamp. Phoenix is awesome, but it does require a LOT of resources to run well. Don't forget that with a virtual machine solution, you're running your guest OS (Windows) AND the host os (OSX) on the same hardware.

With Bootcamp, you're loading Windows as your only OS, so you have that much more system horsepower left for Phoenix to use.

[jrohland]

Phoenix requires the receiver wire to be seen in a USB port. As far as I know, VMWare on Windows and Linux does not virualize the USB ports by default. Have you tried adding a virtual USB port to the XP VM? I don't know if that will solve it but, it's worth a try.

I agree that the performance will probably be abismal.

jrohland

[TheBum]

I know Parallels USB port virtualization works with the Phoenix dongle, but the sim is barely usable. If I turn off all the effects and don't have any Mac apps open, it runs reasonably well, although it occasionally hiccups. Forget about network play, though.

[fxbulldog]

I installed parallels v3.5608 with XP Home and when I start Phoenix there is no text displayed. Has anyone had this problem and corrected it?

Pictures uploaded below:
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Followed other thread below:
http://www.helifreak.com/showthread.php?t=74322

Jim
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macbook pro 2.4 ghz intel core 2 duo 2 gb 677 mhz ddr2 sdram
os x version 10.5.4
phoenixRC version 1.05.j
blade CX-2
blade 400

[Costo]

Yes I had the exact same problem. Nothing I tried till now could solve this.
In the meantime, I've been experimenting with VMWare Fusion on the desktop machine (OS X hacked onto a PC) and found a little option : "enable hardware accelerated graphics" or something, that allowed me to run phoenix perfectly. Still tweaking though, this was only the CD version of PhoenixRC (old box version 1.03c from 2007) and now I'm going to update it to the 1.05j while waiting for the 2.0 beta eagerly :D

Edit: while writing this, the beta was out, silly me... Downloading, installing then reporting :)