Altera_Forum
Honored Contributor
Honored ContributorRunning Quartus on an Apple Mac
Has anyone tried running Quartus on a Mac, using Parallels etc?
Any luck? Thanks HamishForum Discussion
31 Replies
Altera_ForumGood luck, let us all know how it goes.
(I would not even try this). Avatar- Altera_Forum
I'm not going to try either, but I know a couple of engineers wanting to switch to a Mac and they asked me.
Quartus is trouble enough in the windows environment.... H - Altera_Forum
Hello,
I was wondering if anyone has been able to run Altera Design Software (Quartus and Nios) on an Apple Mac? Either by dual booting their computer with Windows or using virtualization software. Thanks, Matt - Altera_Forum
Obviously if you dual-boot Windows, it will work. I should also work running a virtual machine.
- Altera_Forum
i've never tired on a Mac but i've run Quartus II in virtualized Fedora 10-32 (Windows XP-32 host), Windows XP-64 (Fedora 10 host), and Windows Vista-64 (Centos 4/5 host).
- Altera_Forum
You have no idea how hard I'm trying not to start a MAC vs. PC battle here. I'd do it if I could find some way to make it FPGA-centric. Problem is when it comes to FPGA's the debate ends too quickly ... Don't use a MAC.
Jake - Altera_Forum
Thanks for the Tips. After some research maybe MAC is not the way to go. Thanks Again.
- Altera_Forum
i think its worth a try with VirtualBox (which I've used with success on Windows hosts) or Parallels.
- Altera_Forum
I am waiting to see if a new thread appears titled "Does anyone want to buy a Mac?" ;-)
- Altera_Forum
Yes i have a Macbook Air and ran Quartus on a Mac, using Parallels..
it work ok
