Sketchup in a VM? - Woodworking Talk

dbhost · 05-19-2009, 12:53 AM

I love Sketchup, but I don't have much time at my Windows PC...

I have a CentOS 5 PC that I can jam a VM on (Athlon 64 x2 3800+ 4GB RAM 1TB RAID 1, 512MB Nvidia graphics etc...

Any idea if Sketchup works okay in a VM? I can shove a spare license of XP Pro I have on the drive in a VM and have a crack at it...

In all honesty, I would MUCH rather Google do the right thing and port this app to Linux... It is one of the VERY few things I have to switch back to windows to do...

Of course if anyone has WINE tips to get Sketchup 7 happy in WINE I would be glad to know...

ThomasOSB · 07-20-2009, 11:56 AM

I was just wondering if you had any luck with running Sketchup in the virtual machine? I have the OSX version on my Mac, but I do also run Windows XP on VMWare and was just wondering if it worked okay in that environment too.

frankp · 07-28-2009, 09:15 AM

Looking on a couple of Ubuntu forums I've read sketchup works fine under wine, so I'm assuming it would also work well with VMWare.

Wood4Fun · 07-28-2009, 05:11 PM

I can't imagine it would have a problem running in a VM

dbhost · 07-29-2009, 04:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by frankp

Looking on a couple of Ubuntu forums I've read sketchup works fine under wine, so I'm assuming it would also work well with VMWare.

Possibly with the latest version of WINE, I keep CentOS at the same release as the RHEL we run @ work. (I like being on the same software load that we have work wise).

Any clue what version of Wine works with it? I might just grab the EPEL repository and install a newer WINE version than is standard with RHEL, we don't do WINE @ work anyway.

frankp · 07-30-2009, 09:13 AM

dbhost, I just googled sketchup for linux and then followed a couple links to the ubuntu forums. I didn't see any specific references to versions, but I bet if you dig a little you can find some.

dbhost · 10-15-2009, 12:45 PM

I got it going. I uninstalled my original installation of WINE, and then installed WINE from the source tarball. Configured Wine, installed SU and it works fine, mostly... For some reason it crashes on importing one specific model from a 3rd party.

In case anyone is interested, the specs are...

CentOS 5.4 x86.
AMD Athlon XP 3200+
MSI NForce chipset mainboard
4GB DDR2 PC466 (I think it was PC466)
NVidia Geforce 6200 512MB AGP 8X
Sound Blaster Live 5.1
all the standard drives and stuff... Need bigger drives for sure. And some sort of offsite backup...
WINE 1.1.9 (Sourceforge obtained source code).

Sketchup works without any hiccups other than the one I mentioned, it is a single model, and to be honest, it has crashed Sketchup native on Windows for me as well...