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Using 3070-SW on Virtual Machines

Question asked by alexander.formusek@sick.de on Oct 30, 2008
Latest reply on Nov 20, 2008 by oconnellj

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Hi there,

did anyone ever try to run the 3070-SW (either for the Test-System or for the Development-Station) on a virtual machine software such as Virtual-PC or VirtualBox?
IÂ´m considering this possibility because we are planning to switch over from UNIX to PC next year and the first test installations generate more problems than expected: The X-Server-Software conflicts with our more efficient Reflection-X-Software and lots of System-Settings are changed without permission. So it could be a smart solution if we could run the 3070-SW on a virtual machine.

Any experiences?

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oconnellj

Oct 31, 2008 5:20 AM

Hi Alex, maybe you can clarify exactly what features you would like to emulate after you go to PC and i can offer advice, I have worked on many UX-PC conversions.

first point is that we are talking about PC's here and not UX. As you know, currently UX systems are multi user and support multiple logins - PC's do not.

That is why the pC software is available as development to be installed on users laptops and PC's for offline work. You can map and/or share drives if you need to edit files on test systems.

If you want to log onto a test system - the standard XP tools work fine, we have been able to do remote debug, but remote access tools on XP require just one user logged in - you cannot log in transparent to the testing process.

We also use a Agilent remote support tool called webex on PC's which enables the user to share and allow us to take control of the test system for application queries and support - this works really very well in making fastest support possible.

I moved from UX about 5 years ago and i would never consider to go back - whatever help you need please work with Agilent to resolve.\

thanks, Jon

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alexander.formusek@sick.de Nov 20, 2008 12:03 AM

Hi Jon,

sorry for the delay of my answer. The reason why IÂ´m making tests with a virtual machine is that
1) we are working not only with 3070 test systems. We also use selfmade functional test systems running on HP-UX. So we are still working on real unix-systems via reflection-x-software which interferes with XVision (which seems to be a really old software-release).
2) our information-service-department is planning to introduce VISTA next year (everyone hopes that itÂ´s just a plan...) and the 3070-software doesnÂ´t run on vista - I checked this out.

In the meantime I ran some tests on a virtual-PC - everything seems to work normally.

But - to be honest - for me, the disadvantages of the 3070-PC outweigh the advantages and make it very hard for us to switch over to the PC...

Thanks
Alex

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oconnellj

Nov 20, 2008 1:43 AM

Hi Alex, i also came from a very strong UX user background, but i would not go back - the pure speed of the PC when using graphics or running test development, compiles etc. it is so much faster. if you want to discuss any particular aspect you can arrange to call me or i can have a local engineer speak with you

regarding vista support, it will eventually be supported, we are currently working on rolling out vista - so when vista becomes a prevalent platform - we will offer support.

Thanks, Jon

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oconnellj Oct 31, 2008 5:20 AM
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Hi Alex, maybe you can clarify exactly what features you would like to emulate after you go to PC and i can offer advice, I have worked on many UX-PC conversions.

first point is that we are talking about PC's here and not UX. As you know, currently UX systems are multi user and support multiple logins - PC's do not.

That is why the pC software is available as development to be installed on users laptops and PC's for offline work. You can map and/or share drives if you need to edit files on test systems.

If you want to log onto a test system - the standard XP tools work fine, we have been able to do remote debug, but remote access tools on XP require just one user logged in - you cannot log in transparent to the testing process.

We also use a Agilent remote support tool called webex on PC's which enables the user to share and allow us to take control of the test system for application queries and support - this works really very well in making fastest support possible.

I moved from UX about 5 years ago and i would never consider to go back - whatever help you need please work with Agilent to resolve.\

thanks, Jon
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alexander.formusek@sick.de Nov 20, 2008 12:03 AM
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Hi Jon,

sorry for the delay of my answer. The reason why IÂ´m making tests with a virtual machine is that
1) we are working not only with 3070 test systems. We also use selfmade functional test systems running on HP-UX. So we are still working on real unix-systems via reflection-x-software which interferes with XVision (which seems to be a really old software-release).
2) our information-service-department is planning to introduce VISTA next year (everyone hopes that itÂ´s just a plan...) and the 3070-software doesnÂ´t run on vista - I checked this out.

In the meantime I ran some tests on a virtual-PC - everything seems to work normally.

But - to be honest - for me, the disadvantages of the 3070-PC outweigh the advantages and make it very hard for us to switch over to the PC...

Thanks
Alex
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oconnellj Nov 20, 2008 1:43 AM
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Hi Alex, i also came from a very strong UX user background, but i would not go back - the pure speed of the PC when using graphics or running test development, compiles etc. it is so much faster. if you want to discuss any particular aspect you can arrange to call me or i can have a local engineer speak with you

regarding vista support, it will eventually be supported, we are currently working on rolling out vista - so when vista becomes a prevalent platform - we will offer support.

Thanks, Jon
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