This is a user experience of running the entire suite of Mercedes-Benzsd connect c4software XENTRY / DAS on a Macbook air.

"I have an unusedAirbook from 2010running snow leopard as op sys and equipped as usual witha 112 GB solid state disc, a WIFI and one USB portto the external world. Of course, it is based on the Intel platform.As I love these light and beautifully designed machines, I was thinking about using it for something else then letting it accumulate dust in a drawer. DAS/Xentry came to mind and I spent a weekend to get it up and running.

I needed three attempts:

First attempt: Update of the machine to the new mountain lion op sys. Then I ran Bootcamp to partition the disc into40Gb for the Mac and approx.70 Gb for Windows. I used Refit to get a comfortable dual boot manager. During installation I realised that the newest version of Bootcamp (part of mountain lion) only supports Win7 and upwards. Thus I continued with Win7 and as the effort to get Xentry running under Win7 was too big and I progressed too slowly, I experimented withWin7 and VMWare running Xentry in a virtual XP machine. This turned out to betoo slowfor my taste but it is probably a reasonable option for a more powerful Mcbook Pro. Someone in the forum has asimilar thing with Xentry/DAS 11/2012 but on win xp thru Parallels desktop on my Macbook Pro and had same error HHTwin.ini but carried on. Then successfully installing WIS 11/2012 and EPC 8/2012 without any problems.And it’s said that his DAS worked well with mercedes w202 cdi220 by SD connect c4 (lan connection).

Second attempt: I loaded the older snow leopard as op sys because its Bootcamp version supports Win XP. I made adual boot with XP, using Refit again, and started to install DAS/Xentry. I encountered limitations by the single USB port and worked around with an external USB-Hub to have an external DVD drive, a dual button mouse (more comfortable to use under XP than the trackpad) and a USB stick connected at the same time. Problem here was that theUSB port was somehow overloaded and hung up twice. I abandoned this as well and applied the big gun.

Third attempt: I went for a XP-only installation, applied the special Mac drivers after the first boot into XP and installedDAS/Xentry 11.2012(the only offline scn coding/programming version without issues)according to the SKdrasher script but with some modifications.

Like in my PC installations I skipped his step 6 (VBoxService installation). On a PC, I always get two error messages while installing the first of the two DVD's. The first one (no .....getspdir file or similar text) I ignore and a bit later another error would come up saying '...cannot create .../../HHTwin.ini file'. Before

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