The VM image seems to be extremely slow these days, but no idea why that is exactly.. We recently updated packer, maybe that is due to that? Or we have to indicate in the instructions that people need to increase the recourses given to the VM from virtual box? Still to be figured out!

There have been several bug reports about the update-all-projects script producing errors, which is due to an outdated pip on the VM image:

• https://github.com/orgs/bitcraze/discussions/545
• https://github.com/orgs/bitcraze/discussions/588

The debug configuration settings of eclipse seems to not point to the right location of OpenOCD ( should be: /usr/bin/openocd) and GDB (should be: /home/bitcraze/bin/arm-none-eabi-gdb)

It has been reported to us that due to Github new security regulations, the update all projects scripts does not work.

We need to change the github repositories to follow the new protocols

https://github.blog/2021-09-01-improving-git-protocol-security-github/

Bump the version of the VM to Xbuntu 14.10.

Pre-install EmbSys RegView: http://embsysregview.sourceforge.net/

• Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/bitcraze/virtual-machine/issue/7
• Originally Reported By: Marcus Eliasson
• Originally Created At: 2013-10-28T22:57:28.181

Make sure that submodules also are updated by the update script

Will the upgraded VM run XUbuntu 18.04 LTS 64 bit?

I think the tools in use are available and / or running on a 64bit system, however, e.g. Gitkraken is not available for 32bit.

Could you please provide your VM images over HTTPS instead of the insecure HTTP protocol? In 2019, it's very easy and doesn't cost anything.

See instructions here: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-secure-nginx-with-let-s-encrypt-on-ubuntu-16-04

We have seen USB communication problems in the virtual machine. When using the python client, the Crazyradio and a Crazyflie the symptoms are loss of connectivity and general communication problems between the client and the Crazyflie.
The problem has been observed on Windows, OSX and linux when using Virtual Box as the virtualization environment. As far as we know this problem is related to Virtual Box and seems to have been introduced at some point the last few months. It has not been observed in native installations.

Workaround: Run the client natively without the VM. See instruction in the getting started and https://github.com/bitcraze/crazyflie-clients-python/blob/master/README.md.

This problem needs further investigation to reach a better understanding.

The VM should already have automatic permissions to all its serial ports, now the user would need to do this manually.

Update what's installed, the download links etc.

It's just a nice to have, not essential since it's pretty easily installed with apt-get. Still, maybe a good thing to include as a default installed program on the VM.

Kicad has a stable PPA now, we should add it and install Kicad 4.0.0 RC1

When doing the 0.4 release the image grew more than 1 GB from the previous 0.3 version. We should try to decrease the size again.

• Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/bitcraze/virtual-machine/issue/8
• Originally Reported By: Marcus Eliasson
• Originally Created At: 2013-10-29T16:35:33.024

Create a new machine with a bigger dynamic disk.

The VM is unfortunately becoming old and is in need of an upgrade (#49).

Updating the source code to the 2021.01 release is unfortunately not as easy as running the "update all projects" script, the purpose of this issue is to document how to do it.

If something is wrong or missing, please contribute!

From a terminal window:

1. upgrade pip pip3 install --upgrade pip
2. Uninstall cfclient pip3 uninstall cfclient
3. Re-install cfclient pip3 install cfclient

if You want to run the client from source, first run the "update all projects" script and use pip3 install -e ~/projects/crazyflie-clients-python/ and pip3 install -e ~/projects/crazyflie-lib-python/ instead to install the client

I'm in the habit of using the Windows style 'cls' instead of 'clear' in bash.

Adding alias cls=clear to .bash_aliases or .bashrc would be nice.

• Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/bitcraze/virtual-machine/issue/10
• Originally Reported By:
• Originally Created At: 2013-12-28T03:15:37.903

Hello,

Is there any specific Oracle VM version I should download? I am getting an error below.

Then I can see a version_mismatch detail below

We should add a new target that uses the Crazyflie bootloader to flash firmware via the radio.

• Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/bitcraze/virtual-machine/issue/1
• Originally Reported By: Marcus Eliasson
• Originally Created At: 2013-07-04T10:46:51.705

Mac OSX 10.14.4
VirtualBox 6.06
When I double click the 2018.12.ova.
ERROR
Result Code: | NS_ERROR_INVALID_ARG (0x80070057)
how can I fix this bug.

One dependency is missing and it prevents saving plots from the client. Can be installed with:

sudo apt-get install python3-pyqt5.qtsvg

This should be added to the VM provisioning script.

• Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/bitcraze/virtual-machine/issue/14
• Originally Reported By: Marcus Eliasson
• Originally Created At: 2014-02-09T12:38:22.935

• Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/bitcraze/virtual-machine/issue/6
• Originally Reported By: Marcus Eliasson
• Originally Created At: 2013-10-25T10:33:44.843

The master branch of crazyflie-clients-python (which ships on VM 0.6) now requires Python 3. While Python 3 is installed on the 0.6 VM, a number of dependencies are not. The current user experience is that a fresh VM, where the user has run "Update all projects," will not run cfclient. Double-clicking the CFclient icon on the desktop gives no indication of the actual error (pyusb is missing).

We need to build KDE Marble manually and add it to the image for the Python bindings to work.

• Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/bitcraze/virtual-machine/issue/12
• Originally Reported By: Marcus Eliasson
• Originally Created At: 2014-01-07T09:36:46.583

• Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/bitcraze/virtual-machine/issue/5
• Originally Reported By: Marcus Eliasson
• Originally Created At: 2013-10-25T09:27:45.913

The VM image is outdated and need an update.

There are many options but it should probably at least include upgrade of linux and adding VS code

gnclab@system76-pc:~/bitcraze-vm$ ./createBitcrazeVM.sh 
Packer already installed. Continuing...
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--2020-05-30 00:30:56--  https://developer.arm.com/-/media/Files/downloads/gnu-rm/7-2018q2/gcc-arm-none-eabi-7-2018-q2-update-linux.tar.bz2
Resolving developer.arm.com (developer.arm.com)... 104.72.63.64
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Resolving armkeil.blob.core.windows.net (armkeil.blob.core.windows.net)... 52.239.137.100
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Length: 100600407 (96M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: ‘contentForVM/gcc-arm-none-eabi-7-2018-q2-update-linux.tar.bz2’

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contentForVM/eclipse-cpp-2018-09-linux-gtk-x86_64.tar.gz not found. Starting download...
--2020-05-30 00:31:52--  http://ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de/eclipse//technology/epp/downloads/release/2018-09/R/eclipse-cpp-2018-09-linux-gtk-x86_64.tar.gz
Resolving ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de (ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de)... 137.226.34.46, 2a00:8a60:e012:a00::21
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contentForVM/ilg.gnuarmeclipse.repository-2.12.1-201604190915.zip found. Continuing...
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--2020-05-30 00:32:35--  https://github.com/ilg-archived/openocd/releases/download/gae-0.9.0-20150519/gnuarmeclipse-openocd-debian32-0.9.0-201505190955.tgz
Reusing existing connection to github.com:443.
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~/bitcraze-vm ~/bitcraze-vm
Compressing eclipse-project-files.tar.gz
~/bitcraze-vm
Running packer...
OVA file not found. Starting VM creation...
virtualbox-iso output will be in this color.

Build 'virtualbox-iso' errored: Failed creating VirtualBox driver: exec: "VBoxManage": executable file not found in $PATH

==> Some builds didn't complete successfully and had errors:
--> virtualbox-iso: Failed creating VirtualBox driver: exec: "VBoxManage": executable file not found in $PATH

==> Builds finished but no artifacts were created.
Starting VM provisioning...
virtualbox-ovf output will be in this color.

1 error(s) occurred:

* source_path is invalid: stat output-virtualbox-iso/BitcrazeVM.ova: no such file or directory

$ISO_FILE and $ISO_URL was not specified and used in
https://github.com/bitcraze/bitcraze-vm/blob/master/createBitcrazeVM.sh#L24-L31

So Packer ends with an error

Running packer...
OVA file not found. Starting VM creation...
virtualbox-iso output will be in this color.

Build 'virtualbox-iso' errored: Failed creating VirtualBox driver: exec: "VBoxManage": executable file not found in $PATH

==> Some builds didn't complete successfully and had errors:
--> virtualbox-iso: Failed creating VirtualBox driver: exec: "VBoxManage": executable file not found in $PATH

==> Builds finished but no artifacts were created.
Starting VM provisioning...

Also, installing cflib by pip3 install cflib still results in the examples not finding the library

The 0.6 VM currently has the crazyflie-firmare repository clone with "crazyflie2" branch checked out. This can be confusing to new users since they have to checkout master, especially if they're looking to create deck driver code, before running the "Update all projects" script.

Add PyQtGraph and dependencies to the image.

• Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/bitcraze/virtual-machine/issue/11
• Originally Reported By: Marcus Eliasson
• Originally Created At: 2014-01-07T09:35:49.556

Using Virtualbox on Mac OS X

VM starts well.

Eclipse carries no projects. Importing the projects has no success. (Doesn't find objects, g++, etc..)

• Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/bitcraze/virtual-machine/issue/3
• Originally Reported By: Sven Bohner
• Originally Created At: 2013-10-21T20:46:49.633

The version of arm-none-eabi-gcc contained in the VM 2018.12 is not able to compile the Crazyflie firmware.

The solution is to update to gcc8 when we make a new version of the VM

In the mean-time the current VM can be updated to use GCC8 by typing the following commande in a console:

cd ~
wget https://developer.arm.com/-/media/Files/downloads/gnu-rm/8-2019q3/RC1.1/gcc-arm-none-eabi-8-2019-q3-update-linux.tar.bz2?revision=c34d758a-be0c-476e-a2de-af8c6e16a8a2?product=GNU%20Arm%20Embedded%20Toolchain,64-bit,,Linux,8-2019-q3-update -O gcc-arm-none-eabi-8-2019-q3-update-linux.tar.bz2
sudo tar --strip-components=1 -xf gcc-arm-none-eabi-8-2019-q3-update-linux.tar.bz2

Produces the folowing error: --target-select remote localhost:3333 timed out. We should check if this configuration file is still valid or that we should remove the configuration file.

This is with issue #40 applied as a fix for the broken link for gdb

The update scripts updates the source code in the repos but this is not enough when we add new pip dependencies in the client for instance.
Dependency updates must now be done manually by the user and the documentation is (probably) not giving enough guidance.

It would be nice to address this problem some how.

See bitcraze/crazyflie-clients-python#451 for more details

There's a lot of errors in the crazyflie-firmware project since there's a few missing includes for the project (for example stdint.h and errno.h).

• Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/bitcraze/virtual-machine/issue/2
• Originally Reported By: Marcus Eliasson
• Originally Created At: 2013-07-04T10:49:22.978

The pyqtgraph version installed in the VM is too old which causes warnings to be printed very fast when the client is running and the LPS tab is displayed.

The following commands solves the problem and should most likely be run during VM build:

cd projects/crazyflie-clients-python
sudo pip3 install -e . --upgrade

• Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/bitcraze/virtual-machine/issue/4
• Originally Reported By: Marcus Eliasson
• Originally Created At: 2013-10-25T09:27:08.147

Add the newer versions of KiCad built using their script if the APT repo is not up when the next version is released.

• Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/bitcraze/virtual-machine/issue/13
• Originally Reported By: Marcus Eliasson
• Originally Created At: 2014-01-07T09:38:17.982

The client is tracking develop instead of master. This means that out of the box the client is not updated to the latest version even if the 'update all' script is executed.

When adding a submodule to a project, the project will stop compiling in Eclipse requiring to lauch two git commands on command line.

This could be detected and done automatically in the update-all script.

Include the new Crazyflie 2.0 projects and install SDL2/PySDL2.

The KiCad version needs to be updated in order to open the new kicad_pcb file type.

• Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/bitcraze/virtual-machine/issue/9
• Originally Reported By:
• Originally Created At: 2013-12-18T23:20:13.670

The VM build does not seems to work with VirtualBox 6.0 apparently due to change in the VBoxManage command line arguments. Until this is fixed, VirtualBox 5.2 needs to be used: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Download_Old_Builds_5_2.