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From: | Graham Davies |
Subject: | [avr-chat] AVR Studio under VirtualBox, anyone? |
Date: | Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:22:40 -0400 |
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.
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