Configuring FMS on OSX using Parallels

12/12/2007 04:52 pm by Flashcomguru.com in FMS
My main development machine is a Wintel iMac running Leopard and Windows XP, the latter of which is normally fired up in Parallels (rarely in Bootcamp).
The main downside of this setup in my opinion was the fact that the FMS applications directory resided on the XP virtual machine which meant that every time I had to make a change to a server side script I had to either edit it directly in XP or (as I prefer) make my changes in OSX but then had to copy the file over to the FMS applications directory in XP. So I thought to myself 'wouldn't it be nice if I could somehow map my OSX development directory to FMS and use that folder as the main applications directory for my FMS apps?'.

I knew that folders can be shared between OSX and XP (the former being the host OS and the latter the guest OS) but I had little hope it would actually work. Well guess what, it worked and it was really easy to set up.

Firstly (and I did this a while ago) I configured my XP virtual machine to use Bridge Networking, which means that the XP virtual machine is treated like a physical machine on my local network. I assigned it a static IP (in my 10.0.0 range) and started FMS. From then on I could connect to FMS via rtmp://10.0.0.9 from OSX.

Back in OSX and in Parallels I chose Edit > Virtual Machine > Shared Folders and added a user defined shared folder (in my case it was /Users/stefan/Documents/dev/fms) which holds all my FMS projects. I also ticked the Global sharing checkbox. I wanted this shared folder to act as my FMS applications folder and I gave it a share name of 'fms'.
Back in XP I fired up notepad and opened conf\_defaultRoot_\_defaultVHost_\Vhost.xml in my FMs install directory and configured my appsdir as follows: \\.PSF\fms
To be honest I did not think that this would work at this stage... But after restarting FMS I was able to run FMS on XP inside Parallels with the applications directory mapped to the OSX partition and I'm now able to do all my FMS work from within OSX without having to touch XP (must be a good thing). I use the admin console to view traces and issue restarts as normal, also from OSX.
Of course the FMS virtual machine must be running while you want to use FMS it but that's kind of obvious. This setup works well for me and while I am still getting used to OSX (oh yes it has its moments...) I can at least feel at home as far as FMS goes.

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