Does anybody know how to run Ti-nspire sw on VMware

[varxx]

I mainly use Linux, though I run some Windows app under VMware Workstation for Linux. I haven't found anyone who has succeeded in installing and running the Ti-nspire student or teacher software on VMware. Apparently the Ti-nspire software recognizes if it's running in a virtualized environment and refused to cooperate. Does anyone have a clue how to manage this?

BTW, I have succeeded in using tilp, a Linux app, to do file transfers to and from my nspire CX CAS and my Linux machine. But I'd like to be able to use the full-fledged student or teacher software.

It's not a licensing problem. I own a valid student license and have a 90-day trial for the teacher software.

Thanks!

[Jim Fullerenex]

I was wondering about that too. How on earth can the software recognize the virtual environment? Thanks for bringing that up.

Best,

Jim

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[Lionel Debroux]

> How on earth can the software recognize the virtual environment?

VirtualBox, VMWare and other VM software contain special features for
accessing the VM software from the guest. That's how guest additions can
be used to enhance the functionality in the guest (transparent mouse and
keyboard integration, special video drivers for resizing the screen area
to near-arbitrary values, etc.).

The methods used by guest additions can be used to detect execution in
the virtual environment, and act upon that.


Lionel.

[Jim Bauwens]

I'm running the TI-Nspire Teacher software 3.2 using VirtualBox (using XP) on Ubuntu, and it's working perfect.

So you could try to use VirtualBox.

Greetings,

Jim

[varxx]

I followed your suggestion and, after some tweaking, I got the TI-Nspire Student software to recognize my calculator and permit activation. My initial tests show that it's working fine.

I had to do a couple of things to make my Win7 guest (ArchLinux host) accept a USB device, including installing the VBox extension pack. I also selected USB 2.0 support, though I don't know if that was necessary. It still took several attempts for the calculator to be recognized; I don't know why.

Thanks. I'm going to keep trying to make VMware Workstation work, since I hate to have two different VM apps on my machine. But I'm very happy that VBox is letting me use my nice new calculator with my Linux machine.

[Jason Martin]

I am running Linux Mint 13 and VM Workstation.  I decided to switch over after suffering a HDD crash.  After getting a new activation from TI, my Student version worked right out of the box.  I did not need to do any additional setup.  Perhaps it is the host OS that makes the difference.

Jason

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[Jim Bauwens]

VirtualBox USB support is not FOSS, but proprietary. This is why most distro's include a version without USB support in their repo's. And that's probably why you needed to install the extension pack.

Also, sometimes you need to add your user account to a special group so that VirtualBox can access the USB hw.

Greetings,

Jim

[varxx]

Yes, I had to manually add my username to the vboxusers group.

[varxx]

Maybe so, but I can't figure out why that would be the case. When I get some time, I think I'll do a special installation of Linux Mint on an unused hard drive to see if it handles VMware Workstation differently. Thanks for the suggestion.

[varxx]

I can verify that, at least in my tests, the Ti-nspire teacher and student software work under VMware (Linux host, Windows 7 guest) when the Linux host is either Linux Mint 13 or OpenSUSE 12.2. I still haven't been able to get Arch Linux to do the job, though. Arch Linux is infinitely configurable, so my tests mean only that I don't have yet Arch Linux configured so as to support the DirectLink connection or some such thing. I feel certain there's a solution (different kernel modules on Arch Linux host?), but I haven't found it yet.

[Jorge Garcia]

I recently got nspire_emu and karmti working on my Ubuntu 13.10 box thanx to the peeps on this forum! Thank you again!

Then I tried installing the Student Software under WINE, but the install terminates unexpectedly. I didn't even get to enter my License number!

Then I tried installing the Teacher Software under WINE and I got to enter my License info but then I get "error A1." I called 1(800)TI-CARES and they said that's a network card driver error.

Now I see this old thread on the tinspire google group! I wonder if any of you are still using VMWare or VBox? I've never done this. What's entailed? Do I install the Teacher Software on a Windows partition and access it thru VBox from my Linux partition? Or, do you actually install the Teacher Software in the VBox? Sorry, I'm confused.

TIA,
A. Jorge Garcia
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