Unable to connect to Launch Monitor

[fechols]

Hello,

Visual DDK is great! I’m looking forward to trying out a test driver with this framework and tool set!

Everything seems to work except for one issue, which is that whenever I attempt to load the driver from the VisualDDK Console, it says:

VisualDDK was unable to connect to Launch Monitor. Please check the IP address.

The Virtual Machine is Windows XP 32-bit, running under VirtualBox 4.1.8 on a Windows 7 64-bit host.

There are two network adapaters configured for the VM:

1. NAT adapter
2. Host-only adapter.

The VM guest OS does respond from ping requests from the host OS on its IP address.

The DDK Launch Monitor does detect both the NAT and the host-only addresses correctly, and it shows the discovery requests:

Discovery request from 192.168.56.1…
Discovery request from 192.168.56.1…
Discovery request from 192.168.56.1…

Unfortunately, the connection is never completed on the host.

Here’s a screenshot of what it looks like:

http://i.imgur.com/8XClv.png

Thanks!

[Anonymous]

I had this same problem and have a solution that sort of works.

First, set your virtualbox network adapter to Host-only Adapter mode.

Then in the VisualDDK Driver Project Launcher window set the Target machine hostname or IP to 192.168.56.101(or whatever IP address is shown at the bottom of the DDKLaunchMoniter window on your virtual machine.

This has allowed me to launch a driver and successfully see debug messages. I’m still having issues with Visual Studio locking up when I unload the driver but at least I can load and test the driver.

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