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Hi I've been working for a while with Blade, my current set up is as follows:
- I connect the Blade directly from my Mac, I've been using the bladerf-cli as well as GNURadio with Osmocom Source without any problems.
- I installed a Virtual Box with Ubuntu 14 and successfully created all the quarts files and also followed the Getting Started: Linux Guide: https://github.com/Nuand/bladeRF/wiki/G ... d%3A-Linux but haven't been able to connect to the blade. The bladeRF-cli -p shows no device..

I'm interested in connecting to the blade through the Ubuntu virtual machine because i want to use the bladder-cli and the logic analyzer and other debug tools from quarts' software.

Note: My friend is working with a very similar setup but with a Windows Host machine and is experiencing the same problem..

Any suggestions?
Thank you very much.

Florencia

Hi Jon thanks for your response. Using the info you provided I did the following steps:

1- Updated the virtual box software for OS X to the version 5.0.4 https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
2- I installed the Virtualbox 5.0.4 Expansion Pack.
3- In the virtual machine's settings I configured the 3.0 USB
(I had previously followed the Getting Started: Linux Guide on my virtual machine running Ubuntu 15.04)

The communication with the blade now works. I tried to capture some data in order to get an idea if some samples were lost or not. To do so I set the capturing mode to the 32 bit counter and tried different sample rates and number of samples:

With a sample rate of 1MHz and 4M samples no gaps were found.
With a sample rate of 10MHz and 10M samples no gaps were found.
With a sample rate of 10MHz and 100M samples 3 gaps were found.
With a sample rate of 15MHz and 1M samples 3 gaps were found.

I did the same tests on my Mac ( capturing data directly to the host machine without entering to the virtual machine) and no gaps were found in any of those set ups. I also tried to capture 100M samples with a sample rate of 40MHz and only one gap was found.

All in all I believe loosing 3 samples in 100M is a pretty good result. For my application 10M Hz is a reasonable sample rate so I don't think I will find any troubles.

The next step is to connect the blade to the quarts tools (running in the Ubuntu virtual machine )via the USB Blaster which I hope gets here next week.

Thanks a lot.
Florencia