unity in linux

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Hello everyone,

I have tried to install Unity on Linux via wine and it couldn’t actually start a blank game. I tried in VirtualBox and it couldn’t install period. I tried installing on an old XP computer but the video card didn’t work. As of Thanksgiving, I will be in possession of a LEGAL copy on windows 7 professional. My question is: is it possible to run Unity in a Windows 7 machine on VMWare on a linux host? Otherwise I will be forced to reinstall two OS’ on my laptop.

Thank you in advance for help.

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You’re probably going to get terrible performance under VMWare compared to WINE (which some people have reported success with, try googling). I’d suggest sticking with the WINE approach, or biting the bullet and setting aside a small partition for Windows and running it natively. I’d expect there to be a lot of issues trying to run something like Unity under emulation or WINE, some of which might not even surface until you’ve started developing.

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I think U3 does not even start anymore. When I recall right you get an error message right at startup preventing you from even getting into the application (and yeah as xomg mentions: even if you got in, the performance is that horrible that you don’t want to do it. U2 worked up to a given point but the U3 requirements are quite a bit higher etc)

but you can test it with the free version in a wine environment or alike.

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Both right, unless you set “fastest” mode in editor… … I think :\

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Thanks everyone, I originally intended on creating a native windows partition but when a friend suggested VMWare, I thought I’d give it a try. As for the wine option, I will try but previous attempts wouldn’t allow me to start a project at all.

Again, thanks for all the help.

Update: I tried 3.0 with the latest version of wine and the program will start, but then it freezes out and shuts down my my computer. Any fixes?

Also, if you can find an article about a successful wine install, please post a link.

Thank you all.