Running Petrel in Virtual Machine?

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Does anyone run Petrel in a VM? Parallels Workstation Extreme looks like it would do the trick, but I'm wondering if the new RemoteFX in Windows Server's Hyper-V would work?

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MBen · Accepted Answer · 2012-07-09T17:24:31.263

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We are actually using internally Hyper-V to install Petrel on different operation systems. So to answer your question : yes it works.

In other words, there is nothing in Petrel that would stop you from using virtual machine boxes.

edited Jul 09 '12 at 17:24

answered Jul 09 '12 at 17:16

MBen

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score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 10 '12 at 14:29

Petrel does not provide an official support for virtual machines or remote desktops. However it's true that Petrel team uses virtual machines a lot in their internal developments. Not only Hyper-V, but also VMWare, Windows Virtual PC etc. It works most of the time, but sometimes you might get a trouble with 3D visualization (especially in large 3D volume visualization, making the most of your graphics card), or an issue with accessing Petrel plug-ins binaries and/or data over a virtual network connection. Such issues are hard to discover and sometimes even harder to fix, but again, in many cases it just works out of the box.

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Jul 11 '12 at 05:23

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We are using ESXI and everything works fine. Sometimes we have a problems with plug-ins which required additional SW, or have some specific requirement for graphic.

answered Jul 11 '12 at 05:23

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Running Petrel in Virtual Machine?

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