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

[Stephen Dwyer]

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?
>>>
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