Hello all,

At Slav2's request I am posting information concerning how I run EVE Pilot in OSX using virtualization software.


HOST
MacBook Pro running Mac OS X 10.6.6 (Snow Leopard)
2.5 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo
4 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM
250 GB 7200 RPM HDD
Parallels 6.0.11992

GUEST
OS: Windows XP Pro SP3
CPU: 1 CPU
MEM: 1.5 GB
Optimization:

• Faster virtual machine
• Enable Adaptive Hypervisor
• Tune Windows for Speed
• Better Performance

Hardware:

• 256 MB video memory
• Enable 3D acceleration

With these settings EVE runs very well and EVE Pilot runs very well. I have not tried multiple clients inside the virtual machine but I would imagine it wouldn't be a problem. The only issues that arise are periodic slowdowns and delays concerning disk i/o, which could be solved with a faster RPM drive.

If you have any questions or comments, please leave them here and I will try to answer anything I can. Thank you!

Hey I am not a computer savy person and unfortunately am forced to play Eve on a mac while I am at school. I didnt really understand this post though can you use this program on a Mac, and if yes how do I go about doing it? Im debating getting a subscription but I would like to know if i can use it on the mac. Also if an account gets deleted can i transfer the eve pilot subscription to a new account?

joe08 wrote:
Hey I am not a computer savy person and unfortunately am forced to play Eve on a mac while I am at school. I didnt really understand this post though can you use this program on a Mac, and if yes how do I go about doing it? Im debating getting a subscription but I would like to know if i can use it on the mac. Also if an account gets deleted can i transfer the eve pilot subscription to a new account? You should install virtual machine Parallels 6.0.11992 to your mac computer (host). Virtual machine looks like another computer (guest) in a window. As a rule virtal machine is empty in the beginning and you need to install guest operating system like you work on separated computer. If you reinstalled windows, you will follow the same steps to install windows under virtual machine. Then you install eve (for windows), .Net framework 3.5 SP1 and eve pilot to virtual machine. Eve Pilot is windows program, but can work under windows emilation on mac.

You can reassign your license to another character ones per 24h.

There is an opinion that Parallels 6.0.12090 may not be used. Use earlier version.

I have ran two VMs on a MAC. A dou core 2.53 or near that will tax at about 100% with 4GB of ram with two VMs but the VMs will work without any major issues.

Parallels 6 works fine. you can easily run two on macbook pro or mac pro.

I have run one VM while running the MAC client of eve at the same time without any issues as well.


Ghent wrote:
[quote]Hello all,

At Slav2's request I am posting information concerning how I run EVE Pilot in OSX using virtualization software.

Anyone had any issues running VMWear or Parallels on the latest OS X with all updates applied?

After installing MAC updates booting the VM now uses 100% CPU and doesn't boot up, it says there's a disk read error but setting up a new VM also crashes...

I reinstalled OS X, set it all up, worked ok for a bit then did the same.. Annoying!