Torsion, Mac OSX, Parallels and Network Drives (oh my!)
by Craig Fortune · in Torsion · 01/17/2009 (5:29 am) · 2 replies
Just recently got hold of a MacBook Pro and I'm having some issues running Torsion in Parallels.
More precisely, the issue I'm having is I'm wanting to share one local copy of a repo across both Windows and OSX. Simple enough, this works fine. However the problems start when I go to compile in Torsion, it's dog slow! After some faffing around trying to discover the cause of the slowdown I realised that it was to do with the shared local copy being effectively on a network drive (shared desktop between Windows and OSX).
Testing out having two local copies, one on OSX and one on the C drive of the Windows virtbox confirms the above. It is nice and speedy!
Question is: Anyone know of a way to share the repo across both OSs without speed issues? This will allow me to use Torsion in Parallels cohesion mode but run TGE natively on OSX for debugging (torsion telnet debugging across parallels I think should work fine - possibly might need to set up bridge networking for the virtbox)
More precisely, the issue I'm having is I'm wanting to share one local copy of a repo across both Windows and OSX. Simple enough, this works fine. However the problems start when I go to compile in Torsion, it's dog slow! After some faffing around trying to discover the cause of the slowdown I realised that it was to do with the shared local copy being effectively on a network drive (shared desktop between Windows and OSX).
Testing out having two local copies, one on OSX and one on the C drive of the Windows virtbox confirms the above. It is nice and speedy!
Question is: Anyone know of a way to share the repo across both OSs without speed issues? This will allow me to use Torsion in Parallels cohesion mode but run TGE natively on OSX for debugging (torsion telnet debugging across parallels I think should work fine - possibly might need to set up bridge networking for the virtbox)
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Nicolas Buquet
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01/01/2010 (12:35 pm)
Michael, did you just try to map your network drive to a local drive letter in Windows ?Nicolas Buquet
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Torque 3D Owner Michael Croswell
Did you ever find the solution you were looking for?
I did find one answer here, but since my Parallels has not arrived yet, I can't try it. But, thought it might help you in the meantime:
http://www.torquepowered.com/community/forums/viewthread/43246
Basically, it says to use Bonjour and create a shared area. I'll try to report later if I have success in a week or so,
-Mike C.