MCP and Windows Virtual Machine?

RE: MCP and Windows Virtual Machine?

Rick S. — Tue, 01 Nov 2016 18:56:52 GMT

With VirtualBox I was successful with Windows 10 and Windows 8.1 64-bit as the Guest OS, but not with Win7 32-bit. (Host = Win7 64-bit)

RE: MCP and Windows Virtual Machine?

Bjørn Inge — Thu, 10 Sep 2015 06:33:35 GMT

Good to hear it worked out, thanks for sharing.

RE: MCP and Windows Virtual Machine?

BLEdude — Wed, 09 Sep 2015 19:19:05 GMT

Look at that! It does work on fusion! I'm not sure why it wasn't working upon my initial attempt... Thanks for the help.

RE: MCP and Windows Virtual Machine?

Bjørn Inge — Sat, 05 Sep 2015 22:15:25 GMT

No special tricks should be needed to make MCP work with VMWare Fusion. I've tried with both Windows XP and Windows 7, both works for me. I'm using Fusion v8.0. The steps I went through:

Run MCP installer (installs MCP, .NET 4, nRF Tools and JLink drivers)
Insert the USB dongle, select "connect to Windows" when prompted by Fusion
Open MCP
Select the correct device/COM port from the drop down menu
Select Flash Programming from File menu, program MEFW firmware to the dongle
MCP should now recognize the dongle and write the MEFW firmware version to the log window

RE: MCP and Windows Virtual Machine?

BLEdude — Fri, 04 Sep 2015 20:11:46 GMT

Yea, that seems to be the case with Virtual Box, the UART traffic doesn't actually seem to end up in the virtual machine or something.

Could you maybe provide the steps/details of your setup to get MCP working on Fusion. I seemingly still run into the same issue where MCP doesn't get a response from the emulator.

RE: MCP and Windows Virtual Machine?

Bjørn Inge — Fri, 04 Sep 2015 20:08:31 GMT

Hi,
I have tested MCP to work on VMWare Fusion and Parallels Desktop on OSX.

VirtualBox, on the other hand, doesn't seem to work well til the JLink drivers. Installing the VirtualBox Extension Pack makes the JLink drivers get identified and installed, but the CDC UART traffic doesn't seem to get relayed correctly.