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Can Fusion 360 run effectively on a Virtual Machine?

vendor8LDW2
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Can Fusion 360 run effectively on a Virtual Machine?

vendor8LDW2
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As the title suggests, I'm questioning whether a well resourced Virtual Machine on either a TrueNAS or SynologyNAS can effectively run a Fusion 360 instance and not be super laggy.  Users are drawing custom wood creations like, furniture, cabinets, built ins, etc,.  Not designing engines or anything near as intensive.  

 

We're looking at enterprise level TrueNAS and SynologyNAS devices, ones with fairly beefy specs, CPU, RAM and storage wise, using flash storage.  

 

Thoughts? 

 

Thanks

 

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johnsonshiue
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Hi! It should work as long as it meets the minimum system requirement. We do use virtual machines for some internal testing purposes. The performance in general may not be on par with physical machines.

Many thanks!

 



Johnson Shiue (johnson.shiue@autodesk.com)
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vendor8LDW2
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Thank you for the feedback.  I've been testing using para-virtualization and pushing the GPU through to the VM and so far the results haven't been too terrible.  I was indeed hoping others had had some experience before making the full commitment.

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