Rush/Zoom/Strobe - Mac/VM/Ahhhhhhhh!

[Herr_Someone]

Hello

I want to start playing Fast Fold games on my Mac and am aware that the HUD is incompatible with Zoom and Rush. I'm thinking that I want to run either Bootcamp or a VM, but it all seems a bit much just to be able to use the HUD for one game.

With that being said, I don't want to rule it out completely so can you offer any advice or tutorials so that I can give it a go? Any drawbacks, or anything that I should be aware of? It's not something I've done before but I'm not completely blind when it comes to this kind of stuff.

It's annoying because I used to be able to play at Coral Poker on Mac until they left the OnGame network, so that option is gone.

[kraada]

What kind of system are you using? Using Parallels will be easiest in that you can still use your same database, but it's more resource intensive. Using Bootcamp is the same as just setting things up on Windows, but you'd need to keep a second copy of your database in Windows, so that may or may not work better for you.

[Herr_Someone]

Sorry I didn't mention that bit - I'm on a Mid-2012 MacBook Pro running OS X 10.8.4. I would rather use the one database really so it at least gives the illusion of being integrated.

Playing Fast Fold games is something I want to try and given that Parallels is £65 and Windows 7 is another £120, it seems quite an expensive test to undertake so it looks like I'm stuck.

Can I ask whether the problem is mainly with the Poker sites for not including the information you need in their hand histories? As you say, STROBE games can be played because they give you that info, so why do Stars/FT not want to help you provide a function some of their players want?

[kraada]

I can't say why the poker sites haven't decided to give us the information we need like OnGame did - I'm not in their heads as much as I'd love to be sometimes

If they do change to start giving us that information we will of course start supporting these games on OS X. I haven't heard any indications of changes here though so I would not hold my breath for it if I were you.

[Herr_Someone]

I've actually had a think and figure I can use VirtualBox and a copy of Windows Server 2003 that has been kindly donated just to test.

Can you provide any links or guides to help me along getting everything set up?

[kraada]

I don't have personal experience with VirtualBox so I don't know how they do their settings. You need to set up the networking so you can access your main machine from the virtual machine. Then edit the pg_hba.conf file in OS X (it lives in /Library/PostgreSQL/x.y/data/) and postgres.conf file as explained here to allow "remote" access (since effectively your virtual machine becomes a remote postgres user), and then you can just install PT4 and point it to the IP address of your machine and you'll be all set.

[Herr_Someone]

I'm struggling with this. I've got to the point where I need to type my server (ie my Mac's) address into PT4 in my guest, and it's telling me it can't connect to the database.

I know it's a vague, but can you advise what the issue might be? Whatever info you need I can provide, but I'm not sure what you need to know at this point.

[kraada]

Did you edit the postgres.conf to change the line to say:
listen_addresses = '*'
?

[Herr_Someone]

Yes definitely.

In fact, since I posted that I have got a lot further. I can now completely access my entire Mac hard drive from my Guest OS, and I have attempted to connect to the database in PT4 inside of the Guest, but it is telling me that it can't connect to the database. I tried changing the password to postgrespass as outlined in another thread, but neither that or the original dbpass password allow me in.

[kraada]

What does your pg_hba.conf look like right now?