Dynamic
04-19-2008, 07:26 PM
I've had my eagle tree for a while and was dissapointed that I couldn't get it or my castle link to work on my linux laptop. I still had a windows desktop (for G4 flight sim) and I could use it but I couldn't use my lappy for flight data or programming at the feild.
Well I got fed up and put my mind toward making it work. As all the API's are windows based and emulators such as cedega and wine do not have usb support I wasn't having much success.
As a last ditch effort I installed innotek's virtualbox. (its kinda like vmware but free). through a copy of XP into it. Enabled USB support (not enabled by default) and now I can work on my heli at the feild without having to change my base OS to windows.
Pretty happy to have the functionality of logging and programming that I can bring to the feild. The driveway test flights were getting kinda sketchy.
Just thought I would make a post in case any other linux users needed a confirmed working way to do this as I had not previously seen any.
Well I got fed up and put my mind toward making it work. As all the API's are windows based and emulators such as cedega and wine do not have usb support I wasn't having much success.
As a last ditch effort I installed innotek's virtualbox. (its kinda like vmware but free). through a copy of XP into it. Enabled USB support (not enabled by default) and now I can work on my heli at the feild without having to change my base OS to windows.
Pretty happy to have the functionality of logging and programming that I can bring to the feild. The driveway test flights were getting kinda sketchy.
Just thought I would make a post in case any other linux users needed a confirmed working way to do this as I had not previously seen any.