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MFC fails to launch when booted into a virtual environment. Error message "Unsupported hardware detected. The program is able to run on Apple hardware only." {see screenshot}

This thread hinted at the fix, but I'm wondering if it can/should be incorporated in the main releases?

http://forums.crystalidea.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=1064

Also, I suppose that it doesn't need to run, as I can control fans on the OS X side with istat menus when using VMWare Fusion. Perhaps even with the fix, there would be a bit of unwanted/destructive contention for the fan control resources?

I think for now I will boot into windows and prevent MFC from running automatically at startup.

chocobill
MFC is not able to run in a VM. Normally MFC should be able to detect VM environment and fail to run. I'll check this now in VmWare Fusion 8

OK. I'll simply invoke MFC manually when I boot into Windows for dedicated resources. Then I won't see the error message when I fire up the VM.

Thanks for your time and attention!

chocobill
Please try the latest dev version, when the app is minimized and runs on VMware, it should simply quit without warnings. Please confirm
http://www.crystalidea.com/downloads/ma ... up_dev.exe

Sorry, I reworked my windows side and moved to an LTSB release. The link seems to have expired.

chocobill
Just update to the latest version 1.4.1

Perfect. The behaviour is as you described when launching in a VMWare instance.

chocobill
Great!