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Known Issues with Virtualization Software

Note: There are no known issues with running Origin under Boot Camp. Your version of Boot Camp should be compatible with Origin's Windows System Requirements.

Virtual Box
Parallels® 11
VMWare Fusion® 8.0
OpenGL Testing Results on various Virtual Machines

Virtual Box

Summary

There are no issues other than the limitation of 3D OpenGL graphs, see table below.

Parallels® 11

Summary

Details

3D plots with transparency might be missing in full screen sometimes

3D transparent surface/Scatter fails to show when View: Full Screen or slide show sometimes.

VMWare Fusion® 8.0

Summary

Details

3D OpenGL graph transparency problems.

3D OpenGL graph transparency feature is turned off automatically.

3D line width changing

Surface mesh lines widths will change when rotate the plot in certain degree.

3D surface contour lines fail be clipped correctly

3D surface contour lines fail be clipped correctly.

Importing problems

Excel XLSX/XLSM Import does not work in some cases (Mac).

 

OpenGL Testing Results on various Virtual Machines

Y = Supported   N = Not Supported  P = Problematic

Virtual Machine

OpenGL Version

Transparency

Anti-aliasing

Lighting

Clipping

Exporting

Printing

Paralells 11

2.1 ATI-1.14.21

P

N

Y

Y

Y

Y

VM Fusion 8.0

2.1_mesa 10.6.0

N

N

Y

P

Y

Y

Virtual Box 5.0.4

1.1

N

N

Y

Y

Y

Y

Boot Camp 5.1.5621

ATI:4.2.11931

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

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