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Hi all,

I finally got time to post the virtual machine . This is a very early version and all feedback are welcome. I made a torrent for the image available there: http://tracker.bitcraze.se/torrents/Ubu ... va.torrent

To install the virtual machine you need to have virtualbox installed (https://www.virtualbox.org/) and then you can import the machine and run it.

Username is bitcraze (it logs-in automatically) and password is crazyflie. A keyboard configuration widget is present on the menu bar (shows "us" by default), right click on it to add your local keyboard layout.

The machine includes:
- pre-cloned version of the public bicraze projects from bitbucket (software and firmware)
- All development tools to compile Crazyflie firmware and bootloader, Crazyradio firmware
- All python lib to run the Crazyflie PC client
- Eclipse pre-configured to develop on Crazyflie firmware and PC-Client + QtDesigner to edit the GUI files
- A readme that explains how to start

Todo for the next vesion:
- Hardware dev tools
- Tool and configuration to debug the Crazyflie (currently only tools to compile are present)
- Reduce the image size (it is currently 2.2GB which I find quite big, I should be able to cut a lot of useless stuff by starting from a minimal install)
- More documentation in the VM and on the Wiki (I am thinking of cloning a static version of the wiki in the VM, not sure if it is usefull but it would be fun to do )
- You name it ....

I run your VM with VMWare Workstation 9, it works perfect!
Thanks a lot for the VM.

Alex

Great job Arnaud! Is there a good way too keep configurations between VM versions we make? Maybe we should look into making a script that save configuration files for most common applications such as eclipse etc.

Thanks for the Bitcraze virtual machine. I'd like to download it, but my router doesn't like port forwarding due to a bug. Is there a way for you to host the file without BitTorrent?

Update: Downloading at the moment, no need for alternative hosting of the file. It was my fault - just messed up port forwarding.

I just attempted to import the .ova into Vmware Player 4.0 and it does not work. I installed in Virtual Box and it does work as expected. Looks like the virtual appliance import doesn't for work on vmware player 4.0. Just a heads up for any one else who tries.

Hi arnaud,

i tried the VM good job! I have may be two more things. First can you prepare Eclipse for the CF Android development too. And second i found a video instruction to use the PS3 controller over bluetooth in Ubuntu. Check it out
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2yKiMxisM0

PS3 controller over bluetooth worked fine for me in the VM with the CF client

DesTinY wrote:Hi arnaud,

i tried the VM good job! I have may be two more things. First can you prepare Eclipse for the CF Android development too. And second i found a video instruction to use the PS3 controller over bluetooth in Ubuntu. Check it out
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2yKiMxisM0

PS3 controller over bluetooth worked fine for me in the VM with the CF client

Thanks for the tip about the video! I'll give it a try since I've never actually gotten the BT to work very well... still use USB cable.

Amazing guys! See here: http://forum.bitcraze.se/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=57#p191

DesTinY wrote:Hi arnaud,

i tried the VM good job! I have may be two more things. First can you prepare Eclipse for the CF Android development too. And second i found a video instruction to use the PS3 controller over bluetooth in Ubuntu. Check it out
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2yKiMxisM0

PS3 controller over bluetooth worked fine for me in the VM with the CF client

Wow, it works! Getting better each time I start the VM. Getting in touch with Linux a the same time. Love this project so far. The PS3 controller device and your external/internal bluetooth device has to be activated in the VM specific settings, of course.

Hello everyone,

is it possible to use Parallels for this virtual machine?

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EDIT: Problem solved i found a way to convert ova to vmx and vmx can be converted to pvm
this is the tutorial --> http://aspyct.org/blog/2012/08/17/open- ... parallels/
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Greets

Daniel