Cisco IP Communicator on modern Mac?

October 25, 2019 12:46 PM

Does anyone have a way to get the Cisco IP Communicator softphone (v. 8.6.6.0) working on a modern Mac (OS 10.13.6, High Sierra)?

I tried the most recent release of WINE (4.17) and XQuartz (2.7.11), but I can't get audio to work. The GUI draws, but regardless of whether the softphone dials or answers, there's no sound.

Now, it successfully sees which desktop extension it is supposed to be and accesses my settings and stuff, so it's hitting the server just fine. I think it's probably just an XQuartz thing.

There is no native MacOS version for our Cisco software environment. There are very few users running the program to begin with, and the only other Mac user who's even interested in it runs Windows when he needs this application (and he has a cell phone anyway!).

posted by wenestvedt to Computers & Internet (3 answers total)

Response by poster: (Forget I mentioned XQuartz -- not sure what I was thinking there.)
posted by wenestvedt at 1:56 PM on October 25, 2019

You might try VirtualBox or Parallels. Run full Windows in a container. I believe you can still download demo containers from Microsoft with Windows installed for testing.
posted by Mo Nickels at 4:33 AM on October 26, 2019 [1 favorite]

Response by poster: Oracle will send Nazgul to companies who run VirtualBox, but I had forgotten about Parallels. Thanks for the idea!
posted by wenestvedt at 3:22 PM on October 26, 2019