install prosafe plus utility download for mac

You will, most likely, have assigned an ISO-Image of your copy of Windoze during installation.

The installation process is pretty straightforward and to just run the ProSafe Utility you should be fine with the standard settings suggested by the installer. The first step is to install the free virtualizer VirtualBox by Oracle. Luckily, I had an old Windoze 7 installation CD lying around. The hard way means that you will have to use a hardware virtualizer like VirtualBox or Parallels Desktop. Digging into Wine’s website you will find that other users already reported about problems with the installation of ProSafe. Had to restart the installation process a couple of times but could start the ProSafe Utility only once.

Unfortunately, the ProSafe Plus Utility did not install smoothly. After that you can right click an arbitrary Windoze *.exe file and “open with…” Wine. WINE requires XQuartz first, then Wine for MacOS can be installed. To still run ProSafe on a Mac and avoid the overhead involved by installing hardware virtualizing suits like “Parallels Desktop” or “VirtualBox”, I tried to use the compatibility layer software WINE to run ProSafe. Well, they just might have not noticed that there is at least one other very popular operating system in the market. Netgear is offering his switch management software “ProSafe Plus” for Windows.

Since it doesn't run reliably with Wine, you'll have to use virtualizers like Parallels or VirtualBox. Netgear does not offer a Mac-Version for their ProSafe Plus Utility.

Install prosafe plus utility download for mac