On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 08:04:24PM -0500, Jeff Brower wrote: > Eric- > > > On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 07:41:06PM -0500, Jeff Brower wrote: > > > Eric- > > > > > > > Ok, I installed the latest Quartus II ver. 7.2 software onto a > > > > virtualized > > > > WinXP guest hosted by a Linux x86_64 system running kvm/qemu. I > > > > downloaded a recent revision of gnuradio (revision 6595) onto the host. > > > > > > This should work Ok, but let me comment that based on personal experience > > > FPGA tool > > > software is some of the most fickle, easy-to-crash (/ hang up / produce > > > inconsistent > > > results / etc) software out there. If there is any little small thing > > > wrong with the > > > virtualization, you could get an incorrect result, and it might be very > > > hard to pin > > > down. I would suggest to install Quartus on a WinXP machine, build USRP > > > logic to be > > > sure it matches the defined results down to the last detail, and then > > > compare that > > > with the Linux-hosted virtualization. > > > > I don't think that's the problem. > > I run Quartus on a Win2K guest on VMware on Linux. > > My comments are general and I also doubt that it's the problem in this case. > If you > get identical results to a native WinXP run, then certainly that particular > virtualization config is not a problem. But it should be tested. To compound > things, it's not like the FPGA vendors have good Q&A -- lots of unstable > releases.
All good points. Thanks, Eric _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnuradio mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnuradio
