by Luddite » Fri Aug 15, 2025 9:34 am
limex wrote: ↑Thu Apr 10, 2025 12:45 pm
Luddite wrote: ↑Tue Feb 04, 2025 12:26 pm
I run MM portable in a VM on my M3 Mac. I've been running it on Intel Macs that way since 2.x days, although back then it wasn't "portable".
Interesting.
Can you elaborate on the solution?
VM vendor, issues, config, cons of the solution
thanks in advance
Sorry for the delay. I am using VMware Fusion (which is now free), on a Macbook Pro with M3, guest operation system is the ARM beta for windows 11. I am also using VMware Fusion on an x64 iMac with regular Windows 11 guest OS. MM is a portable install on an external USB drive. The only key thing is that for the ARM version, I have to launch using the MediaMonkey_NoGPU batch file, which contains the command "START MediaMonkey.exe --disable-gpu-compositing".
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I run MM portable in a VM on my M3 Mac. I've been running it on Intel Macs that way since 2.x days, although back then it wasn't "portable".
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Interesting.
Can you elaborate on the solution?
VM vendor, issues, config, cons of the solution
thanks in advance
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Sorry for the delay. I am using VMware Fusion (which is now free), on a Macbook Pro with M3, guest operation system is the ARM beta for windows 11. I am also using VMware Fusion on an x64 iMac with regular Windows 11 guest OS. MM is a portable install on an external USB drive. The only key thing is that for the ARM version, I have to launch using the MediaMonkey_NoGPU batch file, which contains the command "START MediaMonkey.exe --disable-gpu-compositing".