Running Website X5 Under VMware Fusion
Autore: Jon H.Dear Forums,
I have been using Website X5 Evolution 8 for a number of years very successfully on a Windows Vista Ultimate laptop PC.
I recently bought a MacBook Pro and I have installed a Windows Vista Virtual Machine on this Mac, using VMware Fusion, so that I can run Vista alongside Mac OS X (Mountain Lion).
I have installed Website X5 on this Vista Virtual Machine and I was hoping to continue using this great Incomedia software on my Mac, just as I did on a windows laptop.
The problem is that I am getting some very strange problems with graphics when trying to test existing websites in this environment.
In essence, images that were previously static are now displayed as a moving image, rolling from the bottom of a page area to the top.
My question is: do any other forum members run Website X5 on a virtual PC within a Mac, and if so do you see the same problem with images as me? Does anyone know if this is even a supported way of running the software?
Appreciate whatever advice you may be able to give me.
Many thanks,
Jon
Hi Jon,
Try to check the video card settings of the virtual machine and check also all windows updates.
Autore
All windows updates are complete, but will take a look at the video card settings - thanks for the tip.
Autore
Finally had a chance to look at this problem again - all Windows Updates are complete and video card settings checked.
However, I have stumbled across THE SOLUTION!
Somehow, various rows and colums of my existing site pages have had the Rollover Settings>Enable Rollover flag set when importing to the virtual instance of Website X5 running under VMware fusion.
I have been through every affected page area and manually reset Rollover to disable, and this has solved the problem.
I have no idea if this is really even related to the fact that I am running the Incomedia software on a Vista virtual machine....but I'm very relieved to have solved the problem anyway!
Hope this follow-up post might help someone else in the future.
Jon