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

[Chris Wozny]

All,

After utilizing FlightGear 2.4 instead of FlightGear 2.6 RC2, I was
able to view the JSBSim in FlightGear. Unfortunately, even if I ran
with the --timeofday=noon flag and/or changing the time in
sw/simulator.fg.c it was still dark. I just ended up shifting my
flight plan to Toulouse to "resolve" that issue.

- Chris

On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 9:30 AM, Chris Wozny <address@hidden> wrote:
> All,
>
> I was running a release candidate of FlightGear 2.6, so I will
> download version 2.4 and see if that resolves the issue.
>
> - Chris
>
> On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 10:28 PM, Stephen Dwyer <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Hi Chris (Woz...),
>>
>> Sorry, I haven't tried running fg on OS X in a while (my installation
>> is broken at the moment...). I will try to get things going again
>> soon. However, from what I can remember what you have looks correct
>> (http://paparazzi.enac.fr/wiki/InstallationMacOSX#Installing_FlightGear),
>> so I don't know what the problem may be at the moment. Perhaps someone
>> else running OS X can try?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> -Stephen Dwyer
>>
>> On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 6:36 PM, Chris Wozny <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> Chris,
>>>
>>> I just tried as you said and the same happens, no flight.
>>>
>>> - Woz (since there are too many Chris's :) )
>>>
>>> On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 6:32 PM, Chris Gough
>>> <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>> Chris,
>>>>
>>>> does it work if you start them the other way round (flightgear first,
>>>> then launchsitl), waiting FG to actually be up and running before
>>>> starting the other thing?
>>>>
>>>> Chris Gough
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 12:25 PM, Chris Wozny <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>>> 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 (proprietary
>>>>>>>>> NVIDA) drivers on my host that is. Isn't it working for you? What's
>>>>>>>>> the problem?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Chris Gough