Warning Regarding VersaTuner on Macs

[Steve @ VersaTune]

Over the last year, we have seen a couple instances of ECUs being bricked when flashing using VersaTuner in a Windows VM on Mac OSX. We have worked with affected customers to recover from the situation, but it usually takes a few days to resolve.

VersaTuner does not support running in a virtual machine due to potential issues with data corruption in the USB virtualization. VersaTuner is only officially supported on "bare metal" windows installations on PC hardware. Parallels Boot Camp on Mac hardware is not officially supported, but may have less risk of an unrecoverable flash failure.

We are continuing to investigate this situation and will provide updated information when it becomes available.

[NotAPreppie]

Just a quick pedantic detail correction to avoid confusing others:
Parallels, VMWare, and VirtualBox are VM solutions.
BootCamp is a bare-metal Windows install on a Mac. Theoretically, using BootCamp to install Windows on a Mac should be indistinguishable from Windows on any other laptop but the devil is in the details (mostly driver issues).

[RX-2]

So is it still not recommended to use versatuner on a Mac?

[.p4nzer]

Over the last year, we have seen a couple instances of ECUs being bricked when flashing using VersaTuner in a Windows VM on Mac OSX. We have worked with affected customers to recover from the situation, but it usually takes a few days to resolve.

VersaTuner does not support running in a virtual machine due to potential issues with data corruption in the USB virtualization. VersaTuner is only officially supported on "bare metal" windows installations on PC hardware. Parallels Boot Camp on Mac hardware is not officially supported, but may have less risk of an unrecoverable flash failure.

We are continuing to investigate this situation and will provide updated information when it becomes available.

Good morning, as I'm about to buy VersaTune for my Mazda 3 2015 (2.2 diesel), I would like to have confirmation that it's safe to use the software with Boot Camp.

As another user mentioned, Boot Camp it's not a VM.

[Ugnius @ VersaTune]

Yes, you can safely use VersaTuner with Boot Camp. It is a multi boot utility and not virtual machine software.

[Davin69]

Has anyone successfully run VersaTune through Parallels Desktop on an M1 MacBook?

BootCamp isn’t compatible with the M1 chip but I believe they’re made by the same people?

Thanks

[tristan_8055]

Wondering if you ever got it to work I just purchased versa tuner but also have a MacBook book with m1 chip

[mituc]

Please read the first post. Is not a matter of getting it working, is a matter of the virtualization software vendors at getting the USB/network/graphics drivers better (but in this case the USB drivers in particular).