Long Appium Road (i)--from black apples to virtual machines

as an ordinary intern, I also began to get used to the general life. The department should have been doing an iOS automated test tool recently, and I'll start with it.

It should be the last Friday. The supervisor found me, said to install a black Apple, want me to quickly the black Apple can support hardware configuration to him. At that time very excited and very frightened, but also specialized to take us on the iOS development of the teacher asked for a Vision forum account (the teacher is really good, very generous to me ~), and constantly crawl paste search, looking at a lot of what model does not understand what type of description, hardware terminology, the heart is also anxious and excited. Later organized a list to the supervisor, ready to start tossing and tossing in Monday. It is recommended that the black Apple can go to the Perspective Forum search, the information is very full. is to register an account requires a certain degree of patience.

Monday The director said, why didn't you send me an e-mail? I said, "Yes, I think it's been intercepted." Fortunately, the information about hardware support is probably in what position. After summing up, wait for the supervisor to find the right machine for me to install the Black Apple.

The following is a summary of their own forum, a long time may not remember too clearly, after all, also looked at a period of time, although not installed but after all, it also took a period of time to summarize.
first is the memory problem, I see someone said memory 4G are compared card, think of their laptop Mac virtual machine card, think 4G should be the minimum requirements. There are memory strips, but not necessarily compatible with the motherboard.
CPU general can be better Intel series can, AMD's comparative tragedy, seems to only support to 10.6.3 or how much.
NIC is generally not a problem, the basic RTL series can be. The sound card is not a problem, it is not intended to listen to ...
video card problem is more important, set manifester support is the Intel hd3000/4000, Manifester supported by the majority of the N card and some a card, you can go to the forum to see the compatibility List.
Apple is so wonderful, not to the characteristics of their own, even the hardware is so unique, rich local tyrants spend several times the price of equipment, no money of the bitter B nnn times the energy of the system.

In short, not the video card is not supported is the CPU is a card, the CPU supports the U port is not necessarily open, U port can open the video card is not supported, do not fit the memory can be used.

finally said ready to buy a single show, and then the leaders themselves discussed, ready to buy white apples, black apples will not have to pretend. I don't know if God is saving me or zhuolong in the nest.

. Had to use the virtual machine. To me, the machine itself is loaded with a virtual machine, Mac OS X 10.7 version, Xcode 4. I just took this virtual machine practiced hand.
because at this time plus I used before, a total of two computers, but only one online account, I am afraid of affecting the speed of the virtual machine, did not let the virtual machine online. So a common scene is that I switch between the two machines to switch to ...

gossip less, speak straight. If you want to use Appium on your Mac for automated testing of iOS or Android, make sure your virtual machine (real machine) meets the following criteria:
system: Mac OS X 10.8.x or more (10.7 of the last version is also possible, but the official website recommended is 10.8.4)
Tools: Xcode4.5 above (the Xcode version and Mac version are hooks), Xcode command line tools (corresponding to the Xcode version of the command lines tool)
virtual machines: VMWare 9 + (8 supported to 10.7, and the last version of 10.7 is not supported)
Native Hardware: Best Intel Series Cpu,n card.

as you can see, I've loaded it again from VMware to Xcode. It's so frustrating.
There are a lot of tutorials on how to install Mac systems on the web in VMware, which is no longer detailed.

Finally, there are a few points to install the virtual machine, personal summary of the more important:
1. Allocate at least 2G of memory to Mac
2. When allocating hard drives, generally do not do too much 30G is enough, select "Save virtual machine as a single file" and tick "allocate disk space now". To improve efficiency.

Sometimes continue to write Appium installation precautions, really can toss AH ~