ATS Running on a Virtual Machine

[Out For A Pootle]

Morning folks,
Can ATS, or ETS 2 for that matter, run in a Virtuabox VM? My base OS is Ubuntu and the map editor doesn't support that. When working on developments I generally use VM's as my sandbox and I see no reason to change that approach with ATS mapping. I don't want to break anything on my game rig.
I've tried running up ETS 2 in a Windows 7 VM but it fails to start. Before I dig any deeper I just wanted to know if anyone has managed to get this working or am I on a hiding to nothing?

Regards

RobC

[Birckablock]

I've got no idea but to my knowledge as long as you've got the hardware you should be ok.

[Out For A Pootle]

That's what I thought. My laptop is powerful enough but I may be halted unless I can get GPU passthough working but initial research is showing I don't have the correct harware modules for PCI passthrough. My Lenovo W530 is 4 years old now but it can run ETS 2 at a native 4k but Virtualbox won't let me assign all of the GPU resources to a VM
My fall back position is to repurpose one of my server farms and dedicate it to this task. I'd have liked to get it working on my laptop though so I can sit in my comfy armchair and watch TV at the same time.

Regards

RobC

[Birckablock]

Wish I could help you more with this but I know nothing about VMs. At least it sounds you like have a backup plan.

[[TMS]REDLINESHOOTER1]

ah if you're talking aboutservermost likely though from point of view of actual playing likely not not sure te OS you have there though at this stage as someone that does play on a laptop myself max at the ram and have the game on a separate hdd...

there is a linux variant of the game so you shuldn't have to run on a vitual machine..

with all the mods there are for for both ATS and ETS2 I would try not to run the game itself in a virtual console you will likely bog the game and the laptop down ..

i believe the 3 platforms the game will natively work on is windows, linux and Ios..

though i believe for the llinux and Ios games might be a download job at present I believe the only version from retail outlets there is in the windows version of the game..

[cklaubur]

Reading through the VirtualBox manual shows that PCI Passthrough has experimental support, and requires either Intel VT-d or AMD-VI support built into your CPU and motherboard and enabled in your BIOS settings. Even then, the Linux kernel must have IOMMU support enabled at compile time.

Here's the section of the manual discussing PCI Passthrough: https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch09.html#pcipassthrough

[Murdoch]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16dbAUrtMX4

It can be done, I'd love to try my self one day, because I'd love to ditch Windows 10,
while alot of my games have Linux support there are still a few important to me games that do not so it makes it hard.

Have to makde due with Linux on my laptop atm. Cant be arsed to dual boot, but I'm very tempted to tbh, miss tinkering with Linux like I used to.

That said, unlike alot of people Windows 10 has been good to me so I dont hate it.
Just Linux is more exciting and fun!

[Out For A Pootle]

I've got this working now. I had forgotten to intstall the Virtualbox Guest Additions but there is one other important thing that I've learned. The VBox VM config sets the maximum VRAM to 256MB which isn't enough to run ATS/ETS. However, selecting the "Enable 3d Acceleration" option has the effect of passing through all of the hosts VRAM to the guest VM even though the configuration doesn't reflect this.

I can now run ATS Map Editor which is exactly what I wanted. I have my dev environment so now I can learn the basics of map makng.

Regards

RobC

[Birckablock]

Glad to hear, enjoy your development time now.