[Elecraft] Windows Emulator

[James Bennett]

Ted, John, et al -

Don’t give up! As John said, there are several options. I’ve never used the Oracle product, but for quite a few years I’ve been running the VMWare product called Fusion. Currently running on a 27” late 2012 iMac with 8GB RAM. I have several Ubuntu Linux guests in addition to a Windows 10 guest that run on this setup. I’ve got quite a few Windows-only applications that I use the Win10 guest for. In all these years I’ve never come across an application that would not run as a guest under Fusion. I’ve got the applications on the ARRL Handbook and Antenna book, EZnec, and the software that controls my AIM-4170 antenna analyzer, in addition to other applications - all work fine.

My logging is done on the Mac OS side - I use MacLoggerDX. Several months back I built a couple little SDR rigs and drove them with software running on both Windows and Linux. I used a logging program called CQRlog for logging those QSO’s. It was a simple matter to export the ADIF records from CQRlog and put them into MLDX when I was done operating the SDR.

Give Fusion a shot - works great!

73, Jim / W6JHB
Folsom, CA


> On   Wednesday, Oct 12, 2016, at  Wednesday, 9:30 AM, John <john at eeek.org.uk> wrote:
> 
> Hi Ted,
> 
> I wouldn't bother with an 'emulator' as such, instead what I'd do is go and grab some virtualisation software (personally I use Oracle's Virtualbox), and install a full copy of Windows inside that. You can then install whatever apps you like (as long as they aren't too graphics-hungry), and give that machine 'direct access' to whatever hardware devices you need to - serial ports, USB ports etc.
> 
> I'm not, as it happens, aware of any 'emulators' that let you run individual apps as if they were running in Windows, but a VM is cleaner (and you'll not have issues with drivers because every device becomes a generic device once the VM hypervisor starts passing it through).
> 
> 73, and a firm left handshake,
> John (XLX)
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Elecraft [mailto:elecraft-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Dauer, Edward
> Sent: 12 October 2016 17:21
> To: elecraft at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: [Elecraft] Windows Emulator
> 
> I give up.
> 
> I have tried to be faithful to my decision of a few years ago, to swear off Windows and work exclusively with Mac OS.  But there’s just too much that I want that isn’t available in OS – Spectrogram, for example, and any number of logging programs I’d like to try.
> 
> It’s not time yet for a new computer, and I want to keep all of my Mac apps and files intact; so the question is what sort of Windows emulator would be best to install in the Mac computers.  I use a 4-year old MacBook Air as a laptop and an even older iMac on my desk.  Both now run OS X Yosemite and I will not upgrade to Sierra, in case that matters.
> 
> Advice?  Thanks in advance,
> 
> Ted, KN1CBR
> 
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