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Re: Using the driver station in a virtual machine

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Originally Posted by kd8rgp View Post
I am currently having issues with the driver station. I run Linux on all my machines, so I'm running the driver station from a windows 7 VM in Virtualbox. Unfortunately, the driver station is failing to connect to the robot at all. FYI, I am running the VM network in NAT mode, BRIDGED IS NOT AN OPTION.

Mostly, my question is: How do you get the driver station to work through a nat?
You probably can't. The driver station and robot are supposed to be on the same subnet. You might be able to get a 255.255.255.252 subnet mask to work with some wonky NAT settings (robot is 10.XX.XX.2 -> 10.XX.XX.0/30, and DS is .5 or .6 -> 10.XX.XX.4/30), but getting the network configuration just right seems like much more trouble than running it through Wine, finding another laptop (any old laptop will do), or dual-booting.
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