Running a VMware Player Virtual Machine to run a Driver Station

[abrightwell]

I have the Classmate E12 2014 developer and driver station image running in VirtualBox (see picture). Essentially, through some Windows PE madness I was able to do so, but it wasn't "easy" to figure out. There are a number of reasons that I wanted it in a VM, most of which I wanted a develop in a *nix environment and test the robot with minimum hardware and effort. What is important to note though, is that we will not use a VM for competition. I don't even think that would be smart for performance, but probably too complicated due to the networking with the FMS. As usual we will use a standalone laptop solely dedicated to the purpose of being a driver station. At any rate, it was a fun exercise and I now have my test machine.