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

[Stephen Dwyer]

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 (propietary
>>>>>>> NVIDA) drivers on my host that is. Isn't it working for you? What's
>>>>>>> the problem?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Chris Gough
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