Zedboard debug with Virtualbox

I am running the Xilinx SDK in Ubuntu 14.0.2 in Virtualbox (Windows 10 host) building a bare-bones Zedboard application. I cannot get the debugger to work. I get the "could not find ARM device on board for connection 'Local'.

In Virtualbox, I am sharing the "Diligent USB Device [0900]" (which I believe is the USB-JTAG) and "2012 Cypress Semiconductor Cypress-USB2UART" devices with the guest Linux machine. (The USB serial does share since I can use minicom to see the Linux terminal.)

GDB over TCP/IP (ssh) is not an option because I'm doing barebones development.

Has anyone else been able to debug in Virtualbox with the USB-JTAG?

Any suggestions?

Thank you.

0 zedhed over 7 years ago

Hi rubinstu,

Getting USB interfaces working under Virtual Box has been very tricky but I think that was the USB-UART that we were successful with and not the USB-JTAG. Typically USB-JTAG is used on a Windows PC with a Vivado install. That being said, it may not be impossible to get USB-JTAG working under a Virtual Machine...

Can you please try the suggestion in this Xilinx AR and see if that resolves your issue:

https://www.xilinx.com/support/answers/59128.html

Also came across this as well which indicates that a separate driver install must be performed:

https://github.com/Architech-Silica/Installing-Vivado-2015.1-Ubuntu-14.04.2-64b

Regards,

-Kevin
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