Hello Laura,
I think this is a great idea and have been playing around with the idea
of setting up something similar for the development team here at UTB. I had a
chat with a few people during this past workshop about having a vm on a cloud
for easy access.
In any case, I'd be happy to help test this on other systems. Many of
us know how much of a hassle the initial setup of the software can be.
Prepackaging a development system would definitely ease things up.
-Louis P. Dartez
On Nov 15, 2012, at 19:15, Laura Vertatschitsch <[email protected]> wrote:
> Did a quick search on the website and in the archive for virtualbox, but
> didn't see anything.
>
> Here we have set up a virtual machine (VM) using VirtualBox (free) to set up
> the blessed environment for programming the ROACH. We have been using it for
> just under a year to program our ROACH board. We have just transferred this
> VM from our iMac to an HP Z1 running RedHat 6. The Mac address of the VM was
> even preserved (although you may be able to set this manually so its not an
> issue anyway), so our matlab and xilinx licenses worked right away.
>
> I'd be happy to write something up for the wiki if that would be helpful to
> the community. With VirtualBox's "export" and "import" features, the
> transition was pretty painless, but would be happy to write about the other
> nice features of using VirtualBox for ROACH development for anyone that
> hasn't played with this technology.
>
> --Laura Vertatschitsch
