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No, I assume the drivers are in the PIWIS image. If you can share the VM with windows just browse the VM drive for the drivers.
I was trying to follow the directions here and here but I think I'm still getting lost in the sauce. Can either of these threads lead me to a place where I could run PIWIS as a bootable USB stick on a native W10 laptop? If I had a PIWIS image that wasn't a VM, how would I run it on a W10 laptop? Would it still be a XP OS environment?
To that point, I connected the VCI to an old Windows XP Dell laptop I have for BMW diagnostics, and when I used some HSX drivers I found on MHHAuto I was FINALLY able to get the VCI to install properly (it's now listed under LibUSB-Win32 devices). I just can't understand how these drivers and this hardware (which worked for someone else on a W10 laptop) aren't able to be installed in the Windows 7, 8 or 10 systems I have on hand.
I'm not opposed to using this XP laptop for PIWIS, though it will be slow. How can I install PIWIS on an XP system? Is that even advisable (will there be hardware compatibility issues)?
I've managed to get my PIWIS II clone system up and running as a VM on my windows laptop, but can not properly enter 'developer' mode.
-> When I run launch the normal 'diagnostics' portion of PIWIS, it loads firmware version 2.11.7.0, and shows the more limited non-developer options.
-> When i go into 'settings' to change to developer mode, it instead loads firmware version 2.3.3.0. I can change to developer mode, and it appears in settings as if it had been done correctly, but when I go back to the 'settings', it is identical to non-developer mode, back in english, back to the later firmware, no additional options.
Any ideas why it would load different HSX firmware in the settings mode vs. diagnostic mode? Any thoughts on why I can't change to developer mode? Spent hours on it, even re-loaded a completely new VM image, same result.
I did a clean install of a slightly older VBox, checked USB 1.1 in the VM settings and followed the procedure here. Not sure what did the trick, but my PIWIS is working!
PFBZ, I haven't played around with developer mode yet, but I know that in the searching I was doing, it seems to be a hack/crack on top of the standard PIWIS software out there. Could have something to do with it.
PIWIS II is pretty old, a Win XP or Vista laptop is of the correct age to run it just fine.
The bottleneck is everyone wants to run it as a VM.
Maybe it's just me but I run software on the hardware it was intended to run on.
It works out a bit easier that way (normally)
Glad you got it going!
PIWIS II is pretty old, a Win XP or Vista laptop is of the correct age to run it just fine.
The bottleneck is everyone wants to run it as a VM.
Maybe it's just me but I run software on the hardware it was intended to run on.
It works out a bit easier that way (normally)
Glad you got it going!
Agreed. I'm perfectly happy to go this route and would dedicate a newer laptop to ruining XP only but I couldn't for the life of me find the PIWIS software alone, unattached to a VM. If it's out there, and cracked, I'd gladly give it a whirl. I was considering creating a boot drive from one of these images/VMs but I think it might be above my pay/competency grade.
Is Belauto still the best place to get a PIWIS system these days?
Thanks
If you want to roll your own PIWIS II, I have several of the Panasonic Toughbooks that Porsche used on the real thing.
CF-29, 40GB HDD, Touchscreen, 512MB of Ram, DVD-RW, Good Battery, and wireless.
Considering getting PIWIS 2, maybe with the tablet - just from looking at this thread seems like there are a lot of driver issues when running with VM that need to be sorted through? getting the bundle seems to be a less painful option?
05-22-2022, 07:15 PM
