Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] GNURadio fresh Linux installation and usrp_benchmark_usb.py error

[Affan Syed]

I would think so too (I mean slow response on VM). It was for that  
reason I didnt do a virtual machine solution, although after trying  
cygwin for 2 days I was highly tempted. If some one has done a VM and  
used GNU radio with moderate success, please let me know the  
configuration.

Affan.
On Feb 19, 2010, at 3:32 AM, Alexandru Csete wrote:

> On 19 February 2010 12:05, Fabrizio Tappero <address@hidden 
> > wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I just would like to clarified for others that I figured out what the
> > problem was but I have no solution for it.
> > The problem "usrp: failed to find usrp[0]" is (I think) caused by
> > Virtual Box and the way the control of USB connections is passed (or
> > not passed) through. I do not know how to tell Virtual Box to pass,
> > for instance, all USB connections to the guest OS.
> >
> > If anybody uses Virtual Box and a Linux guest OS with GNURadio  
> > please advise.
>
> Hi Fabrizio,
>
> I tried this some time ago with Ubuntu 9.04 as guest OS. I remember I
> had to explicitly enable USB devices individually. I did that via
> Devices->USB Devices in the main menubar after I plugged in the USRP
> (I think you can also do that if you click on the small USB connector
> icon at the bottom of the VM window).
> It was running (http://twitpic.com/wyylv) but performance on my iMac
> was very slow. I couldn't make 3D acceleration work and the VM
> couldn't keep up with USRP data rates except with decimation rates >
> 250, so I abandoned that experiment.
>
> Alex
>
>
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