Thus Spoke Herman

Right then, finally got round to finishing this.

Need to set up PokerTracker running in Parallels so that it can see the Postgresql DB running on the host machine.

To allow the VM image running in Parallels access to the Mac, I initially went for the host-based networking, thinking that PokerTracker was the only thing and didn’t need an internet connection, but it checks for updates on startup, and I also use Parallels for using Sopcast, which obviously needs internet access, so I had to revert my decision and go back to Shared.

To change the network configuration, just use the Parallels Devices menu and choose the one you want for networking. I disabled the network adapter in Windows and re-enabled to ensure that the new ip address gets set properly.

I opened PokerTracker in Parallels and set up the Postgresql settings in the setting tab - Still didn’t work! I could ping the Mac from the within Parallels, so was a bit confused for a while, but then the penny dropped:

I had to change Postgresql to accept network connections as by default it doesn’t allow non-local connections!

edit postgresql.conf

make sure this line looks like this:

listen_addresses = ‘*’

so it listens on all ip addresses!

edit pg_hba.conf

host all all 10.211.55.0/24 trust

to allow all hosts on this private network to connect! Obviously make this network the one the Parallels DHCP server assigns. This was the default for mine for Shared, it was different for the Host-Based, so check by doing a ipconfig in Windows and an ifconfig on the Mac.

Restart Postgresql once you have changed these files.

I then went into the Postgresql setting in PokerTracker using the new 10.211.55.2 address, which i got from doing a simple ifconfig on my Mac. It works!

I converted a DB, and renamed and set to be the default in PokerTracker. I restarted FullTilt on mac, to see where my hand histories are being saved (~/Documents/HandHistory) and changed this in PokerTracker before taking another Parallels snapshot, so I wouldn’t have to do all this again.

It now works a treat. It was a shame Crossover didn’t work (or I just couldn’t get it working before trying Parallels), but Parallels is pretty cool, and I know now I don’t need any other computer other than this one for my personal use.

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