Crashes, and python / some other script modules do not work well. Installation is straightforward, just install EVERYTHING on the usb drive and it will be fine. I used two drives, a 128 and a 64- this is great because I can store all my work on the 64, so I can easily plug it into other (school) machines running windows ArcMap and keep going, without causing issues with the massive VM in the 128. Format all drives in disk utility as ExFat! this is important, any other file system either won't fly or could wreak havoc (other FAT based ones may have too small file allocations! Add ESRI software and allocated space for a cache (where your GIS project works!), bigger is better. the VM will take up most of a 128gb flash drive- ~70 gb just for windows and all the stuff you'll want from a PC. Option one: VirtualBox VM on a thumbdrive When prompted for a license when configuring your VM, click the button that says 'I don't have a license'. It will sometimes complain about not having an authentication, but in the months of using windows via VMs, never have I been prohibited to do. $100 per year is less than any adobe situation- so really not that bad.įollow that link for the window 10, 64 bit ISO. My current solution is “just buy a student license”. I hit this limit, as I was also figuring out my virtual machine situation, which would occasionally need a re-installation. 🙂ĭo know there is a little-documented limit to the number of license transfers you may perform before getting either lock in or out of your software. 🙂 The book is slow and recursive, but a 180 days to play with all the plugins and whistles allows for way deeper learning via the internet. A 180 day trial for $50- when taken as a college course, this isn't to bad. My first solution was to buy an ESRI Press textbook on amazon. Despite the annoying bureaucracy and expense of the software, some things are faster (but not better!) in ESRI, like dealing with raster / multiband data. QGIS is always the prefered solution- open source, excellent free plugins, works on mac natively- but in a college / research environment, the only option that supports other people and school machines is ESRI. I need to run ESRI products on my MacBook Pro. Using ESRI ArcGIS / ArcMap on Macs: 2 methods Check out the expanded GIS notes page here!

Running arcgis on macbook pro