Hello Alan,

The Stromasys CHARON-HPA/3000 Freeware Edition makes use of VMware's 
ability to define multiple virtual ethernet ports, and so you can run 
it on a qualifying machine with a single ethernet port.

The regular full-blown Stromasys emulator is not (for performance 
reasons) officially supported inside VMware Workstation or Player, 
and Stromasys recommend 2 physical ports for all production purposes.

Regards,

Paul Taffel
HP3000 Business & Project Manager
Stromasys SA
www.stromasys.com
Phone : +1 424 442 9003
Email  : [log in to unmask]


At 2012-12-16 04:43 AM, Alan Yeo wrote:
>Hi Paul
>
>This may be a dumb question, but if I need to ask it, it may save 
>someone else the need :-)
>
>The requirements for the emulator state 2 Ethernet ports, when 
>installing the freeware edition on a laptop does this still apply, 
>and what does it actually mean?
>
>Alan
>
>
>In message <[log in to unmask]>, Paul 
>Taffel <[log in to unmask]> writes
>>Hello Eric,
>>
>>The Stromasys Freeware Edition, when announced, will have
>>these requirements:
>>
>>Host OS:
>>  64-bit Windows, Mac OS, or Linux system.
>>
>>CPU:
>>  Intel x64 architecture (Core 2 Duo, i5, i7, or Xeon) with SSE 4.1
>>  instruction extensions, at least 2 cores, and a clock speed of
>>  at least 2 GHz.
>>
>>  SSE 4.1 extensions were introduced in 2006 with Intel's Penryn
>>  micro-architecture, and are implemented on all current Intel
>>  processors. We believe (but have not confirmed) that current
>>  AMD FX processors (starting in 2011 with Bulldozer codename
>>  systems) also implement SSE 4.1.
>>
>>Memory:
>>  The supplied Linux Virtual Machine is configured to use up to
>>  3 GB. With VMware's overhead, you should be able to run
>>  CHARON-HPA/3000 comfortably on Windows systems with
>>  6 GB memory, and possibly less.
>>
>>Disc Space:
>>  The decompressed VMware virtual machine takes about
>>  10 GB of disc, including the included LDev 1 disc image.
>>
>>Virtualization Software:
>>  The supplied VMware virtual machine is designed to be run
>>  using VMware's Workstation or Player products on Windows
>>  or Linux systems, or using VMware Fusion on Mac OS systems.
>>
>>When the Freeware Edition is run on a Windows box, you
>>can connect to it using Reflection (or any other emulator)
>>running on the Windows host. I don't know what your
>>options are for terminal emulators that run on Mac OS.
>>
>>You can also, in theory, connect  to the virtual 3000
>>running inside VMware from other Windows systems on the
>>same network, but it's considerably more complex to
>>configure, and I'm still trying to work out the details.
>>
>>Regards,
>>
>>Paul Taffel
>>HP3000 Business & Project Manager
>>Stromasys SA
>><http://www.stromasys.com>www.stromasys.com
>>Phone : +1 424 442 9003
>>Email  : [log in to unmask]
>>
>>
>>At 2012-12-15 02:50 PM, [log in to unmask] wrote:
>>>Hi Folks,
>>>     I am thinking of purchasing an Apple Mac Mini with the I7 
>>> chip and 16GB=
>>>  of memory, if I ran VMWare on this box(about the size of a small 
>>> box of ch=
>>>ocolates) would the MPE/iX emulator run on it? Just asking....
>>>
>>>      Thank you....
>>>
>>>          Eric
>>>
>>>
>>>    Eric H. Sand
>>>      28 W. Carmel Valley Rd.
>>>      Carmel Valley, Calif. 93924-9519
>>>      [log in to unmask] (Email)
>>>      www.Sand-Realty.com (Web Site)
>>>     831.372.7788 (Cell)
>>>     831.659.4455 (Office)
>>>      831.298.7137 (Fax)
>>
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