[Paparazzi-devel] Paparazzi in a virtual machine, Flightgear on the host.

[Ørjan Pettersen]

Hello!

I'm trying to get Paparazzi and Flightgear work together. I have Debian 
with Paparazzi installed in Virtualbox on my laptop. And I'm running 
Flightgear natively on my laptop with ArchLinux.


But it doesn't work somehow. The plane in Flightgear doesn't move.

I run Flightgear with the following command found on the wiki:

fgfs --fdm=null --native-gui=socket,in,30,,5501,udp

And in Paparazzi I'm using the MJ5 plane in simulator mode. I hit 
execute and the GCS window opens. I go back to the Paparazzi Center and 
stop the simulator process, and enter the following in the simulator 
text field and hit 'Redo':

/usr/share/paparazzi/sw/simulator/launchsitl -a MJ5 -fg 10.0.2.2 -boot -norc

I wait a few seconds until 'Geo Init' is done and it is in 'Holding 
point'. Then I hit 'Takeoff' and 'Launch'. And the simulated flight 
starts. But there is nothing happening in Flightgear.

Have anyone got the Flightgear Paparazzi connection to work when 
Paparazzi is running in a virtual machine and Flightgear is running on 
the host computer?

Any ideas what might be the problem?

Oerjan Pettersen