Running EA on a Mac

[William Kramer]

Am considering VMWare or Parallels for running Enterprise Architect on a Macbook Pro.  Would greatly appreciate learning from the experience others have had doing this.

[qwerty]

I used Parallels for the last 10 years and was always happy. The latest versions however got scrambled with useless scrap and someone else recommended VMWare out of that reason (he was happy with the switch).  So all I can tell: still on Parallels and got it working the way I want but VMWare seems to have taken over.

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[smendonc]

I can second what qwerty has said.  I've used Parallels on an a Mac for about 5 years and have never had any issues.

Stan.

[William Kramer]

Thanks!  Will have a go with Parallels.

[qwerty]

The latest version has a (really useless) duplicate icon in the task bar (CMD-Tab). If you need to get rid of that just raise your hand.

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[joeT]

It is also possible to run EA on a Mac using Wine using a Wineskin.

I have posted a link to some instructions below:

http://kingoffools.net/wordpress/?p=175

JoeT

[qwerty]

The pictures in your blog refer to local IPs (196.168.100.2).

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[joeT]

Thanks qwerty.

Should be fixed now (the images are low res but they should convey the ides)

JoeT

[qwerty]

YEs. Works now. I also had Wine once running. But since I own a Parallels license I still use that.

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[Screwtape]

I'm currently using EA on a mac using Crossover. This was under £30 for a licence and the installation is easier than using wine directly. It mostly works pretty well, and doesn't require a windows license like Parallels.

The issues I've had is that with it so far are
a) the RFT template editor crashes. (you can use the generator, just don't edit the template)
b) the scenarios screen doesn't refresh the screen properly while you're editing a field, but does once you leave it. (Irritating but not a showstopper.)

I'm doing EA document generation and scripting on a windows PC, but day to day modelling seems to work fine on the mac with crossover.

[Stefan Bolleininger]

Hi,

on Crossover I experienced some issues during use of a SQL-Repository and some erros in formattings and the function BaselineCompare.

In WirtualBox however, it worked very well.

Regards

Stefan

[qwerty]

WirtualBox

Na dann Prost

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[dimi]

I haven't had the best of luck with Crossover, very slow performance, very flimsy. Lots of crashes with OSX 10.9.x
I am very surprised that EA recommend this route. I would love a native client.
VMWare Fusion seems to work just fine, however the upgrade policy of VMWare is horrid, forcing users to pay for every major version bump (without offering any real tangible benefits besides new OS support).

Best regards
dimi

Hi,

on Crossover I experienced some issues during use of a SQL-Repository and some erros in formattings and the function BaselineCompare.

In WirtualBox however, it worked very well.

Regards

Stefan

[qwerty]

Parallels isn't much better with regards to upgrade. But I think that's quite ok since somehow those companies want to live on. I mean, for EA I have to pay a yearly license fee which is about the purchase price. In the end it's the same policy. (The latest Parallels upgrade was not one I liked much but using Mac OS X you sometimes get forced to also upgrade tangible software with a new OS version.)

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