On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 2:43 AM, Tamas Rudnai<
tamas.rudnai@...> wrote:
> I use VirtualBox and WinXP inside the virtual machine to run MPLAB on my
> linux box and works great with PICkit2. The reason for this setup is that
> even if PICkit2 is suooprted by that command line tool (and with piklab)
> only the programmer feature you could use by this way so you would loose 3/4
> of the functionality of the device (ICSP Debugger, UART Tool and Logic
> Analyser). I guess you can do the same with Parallels and PICkit3 if the USB
> is well supported by the virtual machine.
Hmm...that's interesting. I read a site (which I can't find at the
moment, of course) that said they couldn't get the PICkit2 to work
under one of the virtualization programs. I guess that since
VirtualBox is free, if I needed to I could always create another
virtual machine on which I ran MPLAB.
Josh
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