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…"
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)…"
"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…"