Sets up an Xubuntu 16.04 virtual machine with the toolchain required for working with pc-ble-driver and pc-ble-driver-js.
Clone this repo and run:
vagrant up
This will pull down an Xubuntu vagrant box and provision the VM. Wait for the provisioning to finish before logging in with user vagrant and password vagrant.
The Git repositories for pc-ble-driver and pc-ble-driver-js can be found in /home/vagrant/repos.
If you have a non-English keyboard layout, you need to change the keyboard configuration to make your keyboard work properly. After the VM has been set up, type this in a terminal inside the VM and follow the instructions:
sudo dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration
If you f.ex. have a Norwegian keyboard, choose "Generic 105-key" and then "Norwegian".
To allow the VM to access your USB device, you need to enable the USB controller in the Virtualbox settings.
Setup procedure:
- If the VM is running, then shut it down first.
- Insert the device into an USB port so that the host OS sees it.
- Enable the USB controller in the Virtualbox settings, and add a device filter for SEGGER J-Link.
- Start the VM.
When running Linux as host OS, make sure that your user has been added to the
vboxusers group. If not, you will not see any devices in the USB device
filter screen in the Virtualbox settings. Use the following command to add your
user to the group:
sudo usermod -a -G vboxusers $USER
A re-login is required for this to take effect.
By default, the VM is configured to use 1 CPU and 4 GB RAM. If you want to allocate more/less resources to the VM, you can configure this in the Virtualbox settings.
Feel free to use a different vagrant box if you want something else than
Xubuntu. Find your desired box
and change config.vm.box in the Vagrantfile.
You can f.ex. use boxcutter/ubuntu1604-desktop for a standard Ubuntu 16.04
desktop. Please note that the provisioning currently only supports
Debian-based distros.