Re: [avr-chat] AVR Studio under VirtualBox, anyone?

[Toan Pham]

Well,

I've been looking into Virtual machines for development work on
different platforms (Linux/Win) and targets (Micro, PLs etc); and i
found that Virtualbox is very unstable.
Many times, it would just lockup while accessing network share
folders, periphirals or doing nothing.
As the result, I found that VMWare is much more reliable, and the fact
that you can take snapshots
of the vmware image is very useful.


Toan


On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 11:22 AM, Graham Davies <address@hidden> wrote:
> Is anyone successfully using AVR Studio under VirtualBox?
>
> My interest in this is (predictably) to overcome the problem that different
> versions of AVR Studio cannot co-exist on the same machine, but different
> projects require different versions.  To expand on the latter, updating to
> the latest version without a shake-down period is asking for trouble and, in
> any case, once a project has been started with one version and it is going
> fine why would you change to another version?  Also, clients sometimes
> specify the version they want used.  Picking some tried-and-true version and
> sticking with that come-what-may isn't so good either.  None of this will
> come as a surprise to the professionals out there.
>
> My problem is that communication with the debugger is flakey.  I use both
> the AVR ICE-Cube (a JTAG ICE Mk I clone), which is serial, and the AVR
> Dragon, which is USB.  Things will be fine for a while, but then all of a
> sudden I'll get the communication lost with target messages and the only
> solution is a reboot of the virtual machine.  Sometimes this doesn't even
> work.
>
> So is anyone successfully using virtual machine technology to run different
> versions of AVR Studio?  Does anyone else have a smart solution to this
> problem?  I don't really want to buy a PC and a Windows license for each
> version of AVR Studio I need to use.
>
> For those that find AVR Studio itself flakey, I have not found this.  But
> then, I only install one version, ever, per installation of Windows,
> specifically to avoid the uninstall / reinstall problems that seem to plague
> this application.  Obviously, this means I spend a lot of time installing
> Windows, which I would like to avoid.
>
> Graham.
>
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