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#1

Hi all,

My name is Mauricio and I am new on the maillist. I found RIOT-OS on the freenode server and I came here to know more about it.

You have done an amazing job so far.

I read most of the website looking for where to start. I think this it is on

https://github.com/RIOT-OS/Tutorials

I was able to download the tutorials and the vagrant file but I do not understand what to do next. I presume the VM has everything to get started or to compile a project without having to deal with paths, different toolchains, versions, etc. But again I am new and perhaps I am mistaken

My system is a linux debian and I have virtualbox properly installed with the extension pack.

I ran the VM and it prompts for an user and password, but I couldn't found anywhere in the documentation which user and password is.

So my questions are.

a. Is the vm then going to be a method of having all the working environment up and running just not to deal with annoying setups when one is a newbie and many things can fail? b. Which is the user and password?

Thanks in advance!

#2

ou have done an amazing job so far.

#3

Hello Mauricio!

Thank you for your feedback and welcome to RIOT (:

Hi all,

My name is Mauricio and I am new on the maillist. I found RIOT-OS on the freenode server and I came here to know more about it.

You have done an amazing job so far.

I read most of the website looking for where to start. I think this it is on

https://github.com/RIOT-OS/Tutorials

I was able to download the tutorials and the vagrant file but I do not understand what to do next. I presume the VM has everything to get started or to compile a project without having to deal with paths, different toolchains, versions, etc. But again I am new and perhaps I am mistaken

My system is a linux debian and I have virtualbox properly installed with the extension pack.

I ran the VM and it prompts for an user and password, but I couldn't found anywhere in the documentation which user and password is.

So my questions are.

a. Is the vm then going to be a method of having all the working environment up and running just not to deal with annoying setups when one is a newbie and many things can fail? b. Which is the user and password?

In general, using the VM directly from the Virtualbox GUI is not the preferred way. Here [1] you can find a short How-To on the usage of vagrant. You can start the VM by executing `vagrant up` in your console and `vagrant ssh` brings you into the guest machine. You must change into the RIOT directory before you can execute those commands.

[1] https://github.com/RIOT-OS/RIOT/tree/master/dist/tools/vagrant

Best, Cenk

#4

Hello Mauricio!

Thank you for your feedback and welcome to RIOT (:

Hi all,

My name is Mauricio and I am new on the maillist. I found RIOT-OS on the freenode server and I came here to know more about it.

You have done an amazing job so far.

I read most of the website looking for where to start. I think this it is on

https://github.com/RIOT-OS/Tutorials

I was able to download the tutorials and the vagrant file but I do not understand what to do next. I presume the VM has everything to get started or to compile a project without having to deal with paths, different toolchains, versions, etc. But again I am new and perhaps I am mistaken

My system is a linux debian and I have virtualbox properly installed with the extension pack.

I ran the VM and it prompts for an user and password, but I couldn't found anywhere in the documentation which user and password is.

So my questions are.

a. Is the vm then going to be a method of having all the working environment up and running just not to deal with annoying setups when one is a newbie and many things can fail? b. Which is the user and password?

In general, using the VM directly from the Virtualbox GUI is not the preferred way. Here [1] you can find a short How-To on the usage of vagrant. You can start the VM by executing `vagrant up` in your console and `vagrant ssh` brings you into the guest machine. You must change into the RIOT directory before you can execute those commands.

[1] https://github.com/RIOT-OS/RIOT/tree/master/dist/tools/vagrant

Best, Cenk

Thanks Cenk! vagrant ssh did the job. I didn't read that link before and it was very clarifying.

Mauricio