Thread: FRC Driver Station on another machine
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Unread 12-03-2012, 15:54
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Re: FRC Driver Station on another machine
I was forced to scramble to make my personal Mac compatible to run our robot on Thursday at WPI after my main coding machine bit the dust.

I'm running x64 Win7 on Parallels. I've set the settings to Ethernet (Bridged), configured my ***Mac*** Ethernet IP to 10.te.am.66 (end number greater than 20, lower than 200 to be safe), and subnet to 255.0.0.0. Within Parallels, I installed LabVIEW, updates, and the Driver's Station. I plopped down a custom dashboard and code, set the IP of the Virtual Win7 to 10.te.am.5, subnet of 255.0.0.0 and went on my merry way.

Note that no updates or drivers were needed for me to accomplish this.

EDIT: Contrary to popular belief, you do not *need* a user account named Driver. I haven't ever used one, nor has anyone told me I need one for this year's competition. It's also a good thing to note that the Kinect will not work on a Virtual Machine.