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 <[email protected]> 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. > > _______________________________________________ > AVR-chat mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/avr-chat > > _______________________________________________ AVR-chat mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/avr-chat
