Development virtual machine

[Remo Masina]

Hi

Did somebody already used the virtual machine under Windows?

https://github.com/TauLabs/TauLabs/wiki/Development-virtual-machine

I downloaded the image form the link above and tried to run it with my virtual box (Oracle VM V4.3.6). The problem i can not start the Ubuntu form the VM. There is an issue with the header of the image (invalid pre-header in Taulabs-disk1.vdi). I have Windows 7 32 Bit.

Can someone help me out with this issue? Thought VM would be the best way to get up to speed fast. Maybe it wasn't...

Thank you for your help.  

[Giovanni Trentini]

Same issue to me too. The virtual disk seems to be broken. 

"Opening the HDD file D: \ temp \ TauLabs \ PaxHeader \ TauLabs-disk1.vdi failed. 

The medium 'D: \ temp \ TauLabs \ PaxHeader \ TauLabs-disk1.vdi' can not be used as the requested device type. 

Code 'output: E_FAIL (0x80004005) 

Component: Medium 

Interface: {iMedium 05f2bbb6-a3a6-9b49-4fb9-6d0dda7142ac} 

Caller: {IVirtualBox fafa4e17-1ee2-4905-A10E-fe7c18bf5554} 

RC Caller: VBOX_E_OBJECT_NOT_FOUND (0x80BB0001) "

I use Windows7-64 and VirtualBox 4.3.6.

[Guilhermo Santiago]

I tried downloading the VM again and had no problems using it, make sure there is no file corruption of the download or try using a different file de-compressor.

Make sure your files have the following MD5 sum:

md5sum Copy\ of\ TauLabs.tar.gz 

8e4a1bf2ccf092d3320216b92954b105  Copy of TauLabs.tar.gz

md5sum TauLabs-disk1.vdi 

ca45c3e0ce6edd611f3b45bbf1d47b35  TauLabs-disk1.vdi

I can export to a different format if you still have problems with it.

[Remo Masina]

I get the right md5sum for the downloaded file Copy\ of\ TauLabs.tar.gz but if i unpack it with winrar i have a wrong checksum on the image. The weird thing is also i get two TauLabs-disk1.vdi files. one is in a folder called GNUSparseFile and the other is in a folder called TauLabs-disk1.vdi.
Which program you used for unpacking it?

[Giovanni Trentini]

I've used both 7-Zip and WinRAR, but the MD5SUM check on the virtual disk has failed, digest not match. 

The size of GNUSparseFile\TauLabs-disk1.vdi is 6,742,381,056 bytes. 

The file TauLabs \ PaxHeader\TauLabs-disk1.vd is 213 bytes and is a text file that contains information about the size of the virtual disk and other things.

[Guilhermo Santiago]

GNU Tar

tar --version

tar (GNU tar) 1.26

I'll try to upload the same package in zip format today.

[Guilhermo Santiago]

Try this http://tinyurl.com/nwfnywe

[Remo Masina]

Thanks a lot! Winrar said the .rar is corrupt but 7zip doesn't show this issue. I unpacked it with both and i looks like it's working. I can boot the system with VM.

[Giovanni Trentini]

Unpacked with 7-Zip, and now everything works fine. 

Many thanks.

[thomas....@googlemail.com]

Hallo Guilhermo,

I installed virtualbox on Linux and Windows but on both environments I had problems to get the usb port working. On windows it worked "sometimes" on linux I didn't get it working  which is not such a big problem because I started openocd on the host (hosting virtual box) and changed the settings for the debugger-openocd  connection.

May be you can offer an VMware image because with VMware I didn't saw such kind of USB problems in the past.

I volunteer to test the VMware image :-)

Some remarks regarding the setting for the quaton board. Within the configuration wrong settings for the debugger and openocd are used (see also  http://fpv-community.de/showthread.php?41863-Quanton-Debug-Problem)

Vinz recomment the follwing settings  for Openocd 

./tools/openocd/bin/openocd -f flight/Project/OpenOCD/stlink-v2-norst.cfg -f flight/Project/OpenOCD/stm32f4xx.stlink.cfg

and for the debugger:

monitor reset halt
file build/fw_quanton/fw_quanton.elf
load
monitor reset halt

and deselect all check boxes within the startup tab

I had a problem with the relative pfad and so I used a absolute one for the elf file . With that the eclipse/openocd/gdb combination worked fine:-)

Thank you and regards

Thomas

Am Samstag, 8. Februar 2014 00:06:43 UTC+1 schrieb Guilhermo Santiago:

[Guilhermo Santiago]

About creating a VMware appliance I can do it but it will take me a couple of days, you can easily do it yourself by exporting to ota from virtualbox and then importing it on VMWare. Check http://www.howtogeek.com/125640/how-to-convert-virtual-machines-between-virtualbox-and-vmware/.

About the usb issues I tested debugging FF3 and CC with an kubuntu 13.10 host and never faced any problems with those vm settings, I did notice timeouts after enabling the more than one processor core on the VM which requires IO APIC enabled.

Regarding the debugging settings for quanton I never tested them, I can have a look at the issue and update the VM, can you describe the differences between the VM and the working settings? (sorry don't have the vm on this machine to have a look)

[thomas....@googlemail.com]

I created and tested a VMware image using the information by http://www.howtogeek.com/125640/how-to-convert-virtual-machines-between-virtualbox-and-vmware/.

Everything is working now also the USB stuff is working even  with 2 our 4 cpu's :-).

 

I made two screenshots showing the config changes for getting openocd and the debugger running also for an quanton board.

 

[thomas....@googlemail.com]

I forgot to mention that you have to enable the "Accelerate 3D graphics" option in order to get the GCS completly running.  

[Guilhermo Santiago]

Is that a new VM or an export from the one already made?

[thomas....@googlemail.com]

I used the virtual box image posted by you ( http://tinyurl.com/nwfnywe ) and converted it to a VMware image