I thought I’d be able to do this on my ‘D’ drive which is a 64GB micro SD card but unfortunately the speeds were unbearably slow (poor read/write performance on Micro SD’s), so back to the main ‘C’ drive, cleared up some space and installed it all. So, given Volvo VIDA doesn’t seem to play ball with the pre-installed Windows 10 and VIDA has stupidly high system requirements, I created a virtual machine using ‘virtualbox’, installed ‘Windows XP Black Edition SP3’ and hacked the config file on the VIDA install files to alter the memory and HDD size (thread on here on how to do that). Once I had set it up and had a play on Lightroom and Photoshop (both of which, work well on it) I thought I’d see if I could make it a tool for the T4 as it has two full size USB A ports on the side – Perfect for a DICE unit.
It’s basically a mini Surface Pro with a little quad core with 2GB of RAM and a measly but OK 32GB flash drive as the main ‘C’ drive – Though a micro SD can be installed to create a ‘D’ drive. I have to say, as a software developer I didn’t expect too much from this, but thought it would be a bit of fun to do some work on it away from my main machine, which is a gaming rig desktop with 3 x 28″ monitors….Hardly portable! I’ll post up here for anyone looking for it. This is a copy of the post I made on reddit.I have bought an cheap Volvo VIDA DiCE unit and successfully set it up on a small portable windows tablet, of course on VMware. The oldest car i could find on the software was a 1975 240 so if your car is newer than that this software is probably useful to you.Īnyway, here's the link if you want it. I checked the list of cars this version supports and I've put a list below any cars without a date by it I can only assume the software has information about the car for as long as it ran or for all the years up to 2014 but I'm sure some of the information will be the same if your volvo has the same engine/chassis/electronics as one of the previous years. I'll also supply copy of the digital e-manual i have. I've almost finished reconditioning a 2007 Volvo S40 1.8 and this software has been an utter godsend.
It also features software to speak to the VIDA compatible diagnostic tool. I know there are quite a lot of copies of this already available but I couldn't find any that are just VM with it on so I thought I'd post here to see if anyone wanted a copy.įor those who have no idea what I am talking about, VIDA is a piece of software that has information on most repairs on many volvo cars, exploded diagrams of most parts on volvos with a list of part numbers for purchasing the parts you need.
I picked up a copy of VIDA 2014 with one of those bootleg diagnostic tools for volvo and I stuck it on a VM as it doesn't play well with Windows 10.
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