Re: [Paparazzi-devel] FlightGear Running on Host While Paparazzi in VMWare

[Chris Wozny]

Stephen,

What are you using for commands to do this all on OSX? I've got
Paparazzi up and running in OSX and am simulating my flight via this
command:

.../sw/simulator/launchsitl -a Mini_Vertigo_2012 -fg 127.0.0.1 -boot
-norc -jsbsim

And then running the OSX version of FlightGear with the following flags:

--fdm=null --native-gui=socket,in,30,,5501,udp

And the aircraft still won't utilize the feed from the simulation. The
aircraft just sits there.

Thanks,
Chris

On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 2:32 PM, Stephen Dwyer <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have had the same problem as you, FG just doesn't work nicely in a
> VM (I am using virtualbox on snow leopard on a MBP), and as such,
> always ran FG in OS X with pprx+jsbsim running on the ubuntu VM. For
> me the only trick was to set up the network settings for virtualbox
> correctly, you might need to experiment in VMWare (no experience
> there). I also tend to run fg at very low graphics settings, as I care
> more for speed than nice rendering.
>
> Now however, I just run all of pprx, jsbsim and fg on OS X directly.
> This ends up being more convenient and faster (for me) than using a
> VM. The only hiccup is the occasional debugging required that is OS X
> specific, but there are some experts on the mailing list, etc. who are
> extremely helpful in this regard.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> Thanks,
> -Stephen Dwyer
>
> On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 1:47 AM, Chris Gough
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Clarification: I found Flightgear unusable in the VM, so moved it to the 
>> host (debian) and was underwhelmed by the improvement at first. Host is Asus 
>> laptop with NVIDA graphics, but I was using the free graphics drivers that 
>> were distributed/installed with debian, and they were only margially better 
>> than the VirtualBox VM. After installing the appropriate NVIDA drivers for 
>> the hardware and building a new kernel, it ran much better.
>>
>> It's not the case that I got it working well in the VM, I never really tried.
>>
>> Chris Gough
>>
>> On 21/02/2012, at 5:00 PM, Chris Wozny <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>>> Chris,
>>>
>>> There are an excessive amount of artifacts in FlightGear when I run it
>>> in inside the Ubuntu VM on my MacBook Pro. I'll look at getting the
>>> proprietary Nvidia drivers for the graphics card and see if that helps
>>> out at all.
>>>
>>> - Chris
>>>
>>> On Mon, Feb 20, 2012 at 8:55 PM, Chris Gough
>>> <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>>> 1. Has anyone ever run Paparazzi/JSBSIM on Linux inside of a Virtual 
>>>>> Machine
>>>>> and then forwarded data via the -fg flag to their host OS' IP address 
>>>>> which
>>>>> is running FlightGear? My VM doesn't have hardware accelerated graphics so
>>>>> FlightGear runs like trash in it.
>>>>
>>>> Yep. I did that a while ago for similar reasons, and don't remember
>>>> having any problems - once I installed the appropriate (propietary
>>>> NVIDA) drivers on my host that is. Isn't it working for you? What's
>>>> the problem?
>>>>
>>>> Chris Gough
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