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

[Chris Wozny]

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