Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] RE: GNU Radio on VMWare

[Geoff]

On Sunday 23 March 2008 04:44, Andrew Rose wrote:
> > First, I wanted to know if that is even possible to do for
> > development (inside virtual machine development)?
>
> For what it's worth, I installed GNU Radio on CentOS 4 under VMWare.  I
> successfully built it but (from by experience and from subsequent
> reading of the VMWare documentation) it doesn't support recording from a
> microphone connected to the sound card.
>
> If you've got a USRP, that may not be a problem for you.  However, if,
> like me, you're hoping to use a scanner to connect via the sound card,
> VMWare won't work for you.  (Alternatively, later versions of VMWare may
> support the microphone.  I was using a Beta of v2.)
>
> In the end, I found it was trivial to install Ubuntu (Gutsy) for
> dual-booting with my Windows XP system.  This was definitely the easiest
> way to get everything working.  (I'd previously used the Cygwin
> installation method but the performance had been unacceptably poor.)
>
> Andrew
>
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Another data point for those considering ways of running GnuRadio on their 
Windows box. I have managed to install andLinux (http://www.andlinux.org) on 
my XP box. This allowed me to compile and install GnuRadio 3.1.1 and the 
trunk version of grc. It appears that I now have a working GnuRadio 
installation!! :-) . Now to find the time to learn what makes it tick, 
hopefully it plays nice with HPSDR hardware.

Cheers, Geoff.