Running SITL on Windows

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- Christine Rhubarb > Menno Hochstenbach March 18, 2014 at 5:34pm
  
  Hi Menno,
  
  I had the same error about the number of cores. My laptop does not have 4 processors in it. I set that value to 1 and it worked fine for me. I can't help with the Hard Disk question.
  
  1) This was also confusing to me at first. If you didn't change the default folder names when installing, you are probably looking for a folder named GitHub. For me the path was C:\Users\rhubarb\Documents\GitHub
  
  2) I don't know, I haven't gotten that far yet.
  - Menno Hochstenbach > Christine Rhubarb March 19, 2014 at 1:48am
    
    Thanks,
    
    I'm not using GitHub. I copied the ArduCopter 3.1.2 code to another folder. My structure is like this:
    C:\Users\Menno\Documents\ArduPilot-3.1.2\ardupilot-ArduVTOL-3.1.2\ArduVTOL_latest\ArduVTOL_latest.pde
    
    I've set the "Host Path" as C:\Users\Menno\Documents\ArduPilot-3.1.2\ardupilot-ArduVTOL-3.1.2\ is this correct? Because now the path is the parent of folders ArduVTOL (former ArduCopter), libraries, Tools, etc.
    
    Menno
Christine Rhubarb March 9, 2014 at 1:25pm

Hi all, I'm running Windows 7 and have been following the instructions to install SITL on Windows. I'm very new to working with Linux and virtual machines, so bear with my inexperience. I had lots of trouble with step 3 (sharing files between the host and VM) but I think it's working correctly now.

I'm stuck at Step 7 - Starting the simulator. When I enter any of the 3 commands "./Tools/autotest/...", it says "No such file or directory". All the file folders seem to be in place, and it doesn't specify what file is missing. I've attached a screenshot. Any thoughts? Thanks!

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  Randy > Christine Rhubarb March 9, 2014 at 6:56pm
  
  Chrstine,
  
  It's saying that it can't find the autotest.py script for some reason. Maybe go into the ArduCopter directory (i.e. GitHub/ardupilot/ArduCopter) and try running the command but put an extra dot at the beginning. i.e. ../Tools/autotest/..
  - Christine Rhubarb > Randy March 11, 2014 at 5:14pm
    
    Thanks Randy for the suggestion,
    
    I tried the command from a bunch of different directories and get the same message each time "No such file or directory". I also tried running the command and replacing with arducopter.py (just to see what happens) and I get programming error messages. So it seems like file sharing is working, but the autotest.py file is not?
    
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      Randy > Christine Rhubarb March 11, 2014 at 5:38pm
      
      maybe it's a file format issue difference between windows and unix. Could you go into the autotest directory and try running:
      
      dos2unix autotest.py
      
      or maybe this command to convert all dos formats to unix formats.
      
      dos2unix *.py
      - Christine Rhubarb > Randy March 11, 2014 at 5:54pm
        
        Ooh, that fixed it. Lots of things are happening now. I see a map and a road. Now to figure out how to work this thing.... Thanks!!! :)
Parth Kumar February 25, 2014 at 3:47pm

Hi Randy,

Arduplane SITL on vmware fails.

I typed ./Tools/autotest/autotest.py build.ArduPlane fly.ArduPlane --viewerip=192.168.xxx.x

Builds ok but gives test failed for fly.ArduPlane and does not start Arduplane in SITL.

The same works totally fine with ArduCopter. Any ideas?

I am tryin to connect to the SITL Arduplane running in VMware player on Ubuntu, to Xplane running in windows with Mission Planner. Any ideas on how it could do this?
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  Randy > Parth Kumar February 25, 2014 at 9:50pm
  
  Tridge and I reviewed the two wiki pages that we have (sitl on windows, sitl on linux) and added some details to both. It seems that to run ArduPlane you also need to install, "autogen" and "make" the JSB simulator.
  
  Can you give the modified instructions a try and see if you can get it working?
  - Jorge Pantoja > Randy July 29, 2014 at 9:48am
    
    Hello Randy,
    
    I am having the exact same problem that Parth described when trying to run SITL for ArduPlane. Everyting builds ok but at the end I get FAILED: ['fly.ArduPlane']. I did the same for ArduCopter and it works perfectly. My set up is the following:
    
    Ubuntu (On VirtualBox)
    
    Mission Planner (Windows 7)
    
    I ran on a terminal the following as described on the wiki but it didn't solve my problem:
    
    cd jsbsim
    ./autogen.sh
    make
    
    Can you please help me?
    
    Regards,
    Jorge

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