Does ZEMAX Run Under Emulation?
In principle, if an emulator was perfect, ZEMAX would not be able to tell if it was running under a “real” Windows machine or in an emulated environment. Unfortunately, current emulators are far from perfect. We have heard from users who run ZEMAX under VMWare on Linux machines. They report that calculations run at approximately 80% of “native” speed, but that graphics (and particularly the OpenGL Shaded Graphics) are noticeably slower. (This is compared to simply running Windows on the same machine directly). However, note that we do not support running under emulation: if it works then fine, but if not, we can’t help!
