Speech:Summer 2014 GNU Radio Virtual Machine


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Create a Virtual Machine with GNU Radio
There are multiple visualization solutions but for our purpose Oracle VM VirtualBox was used. GNU Radio 3.7.1 was tested on Ubuntu 12.10 and 13.10 versions.

Installing VirtualBox Guest Additions
In order to start the installation of GNU Radio we need a clean Ubuntu VM with the VirtualBox Guest Additions installed. The Guest Additions are designed to be installed inside a VM after the Ubuntu has been installed. They consist of device drivers and system applications that optimize Ubuntu operating system for better performance needed to operate the SDR Hardware. The VirtualBox Guest Additions are provided as a single CD-ROM image file which is called VBoxGuestAdditions.iso. This image file is located in the installation directory of VirtualBox. To install the Guest Additions for a particular VM, you mount this ISO file in your VM as a virtual CD-ROM and install from there.


 * The first step is to grand sudo privileges to the current user and update the curent Ubuntu version.

$ sudo su $ apt-get update $ apt-get upgrade


 * The second step is to prepare the Ubuntu system for building external kernel modules (DKMS):

$ apt-get install dkms


 * Reboot your guest system in order to activate the updates.


 * Insert the VBoxGuestAdditions.iso CD file into your Ubuntu guest's virtual CD-ROM drive.


 * Change to the directory where your CD-ROM drive is mounted and execute as root:

$ sh ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run