Setting up your simulator

Setting up a Vagrant simulator

Prerequisites

1. Git
   Leave line endings untouched git config --global core.autocrlf false
2. Install VirtualBox for your OS
3. Install Vagrant for your OS
4. Clone the autopilot repository git clone https://github.com/ArduPilot/ardupilot.git

Configure Vagrant

1. Within the ardupilot directory add the following lines to your vagrantfile before the final "end"

   config.vm.network "forwarded_port", guest: 5760, host: 5760, protocol: "tcp"
   config.vm.network "forwarded_port", guest: 5761, host: 5761, protocol: "tcp"
   config.vm.network "forwarded_port", guest: 5762, host: 5762, protocol: "tcp"
   config.vm.network "forwarded_port", guest: 5763, host: 5763, protocol: "tcp"

2. Launch vagrant vagrant up
3. Initialize submodules
   vagrant ssh
cd /vagrant
git submodule update --init --recursive
exit

Launching your simulator

1. Launch your virtual machine vagrant up from within the ardupilot/Tools/vagrant directory
2. Start your simulator vagrant ssh -c "sim_vehicle.py -j 2 -v ArduCopter"