What PC emulator are you Mac users using for VESC tool?

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Would Parallels work fine? Boot camp? Is there a way to get an older windows for free or do I just have to buy windows 10 as well?

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I just use bootcamp

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If you’re feeling a little adventurous or don’t have Parallels, you can install Qt on your Mac, get the Linux source files, and then compile the code.

This is how I run Ackmaniac’s version on my Mac, and it works like a charm. Installing Qt was a minor struggle, but otherwise it was fine. It took me about 20 minutes to figure out.

I don’t have time right now to write up the instructions, but maybe someone else does or if there’s interest I can draft something up later.

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None, @rpasichnyk has US, mac users, covered.

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If you only want to use Windows for the VESC Tool, you probably don’t need to buy it. You can download a virtual machine image with Windows from Microsoft for free: https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/downloads/virtual-machines

But as @squad said, there’s really no need for Windows. You can run the VESC Tool natively on your Mac.

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Thank you. Works perfectly. Now to figure out how to use it

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What Mac are you running it on? 2016 and younger?