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Outernet Virtual Machine up and running under Mac Os X.

Specs:

  • MacBook usb-c
  • 10.11.6

However I had to install the “VirtualBox 5.1.6 Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack” to get USB 2.0 and 3.0 running.

bw

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What would you suggest we change in these instructions:

For running OuternetInABox on macOS, you will first need to download and install
Virtualbox and VirtualBox Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack from here:

Downloads – Oracle VM VirtualBox

Then download the Outernet.ova (virtual appliance) from this directory.

Once downloaded, just double-click the .ova file whereever downloaded, and Virtualbox will open to import it.

After import, select the Outernet vm in virtualbox, and click start.

by default files go in /tmp/Outernet folder. You can change this in the VM settings.

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Hi Syed,

The information is all there in the instructions.

But just to make it even more clear for all users, ie that 2 separate pieces of software are requested:

Instead of

  • “you will first need to download and install
    Virtualbox and VirtualBox Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack”

Something like this might be better

  • “you will first need to download and install both these 2 files
    (1) Virtualbox and (2) VirtualBox Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack”

bw

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I have been able to get the Mac VM to work, but (at least for in the Americas) I had to copy some files around, to get the decoder on to the right frequency (1539 Mhz).

To do this, each time I boot, I copy /mnt/hostfs/Outernet/Satellites.Available/AMERICAS.txt to this directory:

/mnt/hostfs/Outernet/Satellites.Selected.

Then restart the client in the default home directory (/home/tc/outernet.sh)

I haven’t looked at making this static, as I will soon migrate to a Rasp Pi 3…