Leginon

h1. Setup simulator with VMware Fusion

You can get tem and camera simulator from manufactures and setup virtual machines for development.

I set up 2 virtual machines on my MacBook with VMware and can run all the tcp transporter tests and image acquisition using a few specific settings as follow:

On the mac, find out the hostname known by python socket module.  In python command line

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import socket

socket.gethostname()

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My mac is called anchi3.local

For each virtual machine

# Open Network Adopter settings through menu VMware Fusion/Virtual Machine\Network Adopter\Network Adopter Settings...

# Select to use "Private to my Mac" and activate "Connect Network Adaptor" if not already chosen.

# Follow [[Windows_Installation_All#Add-the-IP-address-and-matching-hostname-of-the-microscope-and-digital-camera-computer-in-your-host-file-on-the-main-Leginon-computer,-and-vice-versa.|instruction for adding IP address and matching hostname in your host file]] to make all parties on this private network know each other by hostname

# ** Note: the virtual machine knows the real machine as "anchi3", not "anchi3.local"*.  You should associate both names with the private network IP (127.xx.xx.1)

On the mac, the /etc/hosts should include assignment to each virtual machine as well as its own private network IP.  I have

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127.xx.xx.128 virtual1

127.xx.xx.129 virtual2

127.xx.xx.1 anchi3 anchi3.local

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