Hi,

Can anyone confirm that there is infact a known conflict between these two programs? I have reinstalled my OS 6-7 times in the past 4-5 days. I have just tonight confirmed that it only takes these two software packages to cause the hang after setting up VMware and performing the installs in a hardware agnostic environment.

If there is in fact a conflict can anyone confirm that it still exists in EMC10? I would hate to have to give up EMC, but I fear that is what I will need to do.

Thanks

Kevin

You're the first person that I have seen mention it. I have never even heard of Adobe Lightroom.

Bruce, I'd be quicker to blame the fact that the OP is trying to run what are basically two graphics intensive apps in VMWare.

EMC, to operate correctly, needs the latest video drivers and DirectX - VMWare uses it's own video drivers and does not support DirectX

Running any app in an emulator will be problematic at the best of times

You'd be quick, but since it caused a corruption 6-7 times before starting to playing in the VM environment then I do not believe that my issue is related to VM at all. The issue is that these two products do not work together. I have run a number of tests in a VMware system, any number of my applications will co-habitat with both EMC9 and LR will cause the system to hang and fail to boot and/or shutdown.

Kevin

Believe me - as someone who uses VMWare in a Linux environment - the highest version of any Roxio app I can successfully run is ECD6

NONE of the later ones will work correctly due to the video drivers being generic VMWare and no DirectX support

I can not comment on the functionality of EMC9 in a VMware environment, but my issue is completely unrelated to VMware. This has nothing to do with actually running EMC, but the services that EMC9 Starts up. My issue is when I install EMC9 and Adobe Lightroom on the same system, the system becomes un-usable. By Un-usable, I mean that the system will boot, although very slow, allow for the login, again this takes 10-20 minutes, then nothing for an hr or so, no icons, no start bar - nothing, finally I get the icons but never get the Start bar. If I start a program and minimize it, it shows up at the bottom of the screen above where the Startbar would have been ... This is the same in and out of VM. Just in VM it is easier to rebuild the system from Snapshot

I spoke to Roxio Support yesterday, the response was less than helpful; akin to going to the doctors and saying, "doc, my arm hurts when I do this... " and the doctor replies, well don't do that ... It was suggested that I not run Adobe Light room on my system ... DUH! not helpful at all.

I was hoping that someone has had a similar experience with these two applications and could provide some guidance.

any and all feedback welcome.

thanks

Kevin

If you try to run EMC9 in a VMWare environment - it WILL be unusable - that's a basic fact

I don't know about the Adobe program, but I do know the limitations of emulation software

I also came across this page in the VMWare forum which states:

"the Easy Media Creator components that require DX9.0c will NOT work in VMware Fusion"

http://communities.vmware.com/thread/105274