loop · January 9, 2015 16:20
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 After quite some struggles, I finally managed to get the Player / Stage stack installed exactly the way I wanted it. It gave me quite a headache, so I thought it would be a good thing to share (so other people don’t have to go through the same thing).
 First of all, my perfect setting was to set my environement up through VirtualBox. This is because Player / Stage is still quite rough and requires packets and tinkering I did not want to occur on my stable work machine. However, I wanted to develop through my normal Eclipse (in my host operating system) as that was already all set-up and I didn’t want to get into performance issues through the Virtual Machine. Knowing all of that, I made the following choices :
 Virtualbox
 Easy to install, widespread and I knew it already
 Fedora 15
 This was an easy choice, as it was recommended on the player / stage download page – Fedora already has the player / stage packets in it’s official repositories, making things a lot easier.
 OpenJDK
 I wasn’t 100% sure it would all work on OpenJDK, but I wanted to try and… it all worked out for the best  (so no need to install the Oracle Java dependencies)
 Shared folder of my Eclipse workspace that could be accessed directly through the virtual machine
 That was my perfect setting and it turned out not too hard to set up.
 Further along this article, I explain what problems I had. This can be helpful if you have specific questions, but here is the full set of instructions to get everything working :
 Download the Fedora 15 CD image from their website and install a clean virtual machine
 Be sure to allocate enough space to the root partition for installation of different packages (I allocated 3.5 GB)
 Prepare fedora to install VirtualBox Guest Additions
 yum install kernel-headers kernel-devel
 Reboot
 Install gcc : yum install gcc
 Install VirtualBox Guest Additions
 Install player / stage
 yum install player player-devel player-doc player-examples player-python player-ruby
 yum install stage stage-devel stage-playerplugin
 For more information on this step, see here : http://playerstage.sourceforge.net/wiki/Download
 Install OpenJDK and all Java utils you will need (through “Add software GUI)
 Shut down machine
 Go to “settings” in your Fedora VirtualBox and add your workspace as a shared folder. Select “auto-mount”
 Start your Fedora VirtualBox
 (You can now find your folder under /media)
 Run “system-config-users” and add your local user to the “vboxsf” group
 Done !
 The problems I encountered
 Player wouldn’t show my robot
 It was really weird when everything seemed to work, but for some reason Player wouldn’t show my robot (a little red thing driving around). This was very easily fixed by installing the VirtualBox Guest Additions
 Guest Additions wouldn’t install properly
 I needed to install kernel-headers and kernel-devel first, for Guest Additions to install correctly (‘yum install kernel-headers kernel-devel’ -> reboot)
 I couldn’t access my shared folder
 I needed to add my personal user (under the fedora virtualbox) to the vboxsf user group
	After quite some struggles, I finally managed to get the Player / Stage stack installed exactly the way I wanted it. It gave me quite a headache, so I thought it would be a good thing to share (so other people don’t have to go through the same thing).
	First of all, my perfect setting was to set my environement up through VirtualBox. This is because Player / Stage is still quite rough and requires packets and tinkering I did not want to occur on my stable work machine. However, I wanted to develop through my normal Eclipse (in my host operating system) as that was already all set-up and I didn’t want to get into performance issues through the Virtual Machine. Knowing all of that, I made the following choices :
	Virtualbox
	Easy to install, widespread and I knew it already
	Fedora 15
	This was an easy choice, as it was recommended on the player / stage download page – Fedora already has the player / stage packets in it’s official repositories, making things a lot easier.
	OpenJDK
	I wasn’t 100% sure it would all work on OpenJDK, but I wanted to try and… it all worked out for the best (so no need to install the Oracle Java dependencies)
	Shared folder of my Eclipse workspace that could be accessed directly through the virtual machine
	That was my perfect setting and it turned out not too hard to set up.
	Further along this article, I explain what problems I had. This can be helpful if you have specific questions, but here is the full set of instructions to get everything working :
	Download the Fedora 15 CD image from their website and install a clean virtual machine
	Be sure to allocate enough space to the root partition for installation of different packages (I allocated 3.5 GB)
	Prepare fedora to install VirtualBox Guest Additions
	yum install kernel-headers kernel-devel
	Reboot
	Install gcc : yum install gcc
	Install VirtualBox Guest Additions
	Install player / stage
	yum install player player-devel player-doc player-examples player-python player-ruby
	yum install stage stage-devel stage-playerplugin
	For more information on this step, see here : http://playerstage.sourceforge.net/wiki/Download
	Install OpenJDK and all Java utils you will need (through “Add software GUI)
	Shut down machine
	Go to “settings” in your Fedora VirtualBox and add your workspace as a shared folder. Select “auto-mount”
	Start your Fedora VirtualBox
	(You can now find your folder under /media)
	Run “system-config-users” and add your local user to the “vboxsf” group
	Done !
	The problems I encountered
	Player wouldn’t show my robot
	It was really weird when everything seemed to work, but for some reason Player wouldn’t show my robot (a little red thing driving around). This was very easily fixed by installing the VirtualBox Guest Additions
	Guest Additions wouldn’t install properly
	I needed to install kernel-headers and kernel-devel first, for Guest Additions to install correctly (‘yum install kernel-headers kernel-devel’ -> reboot)
	I couldn’t access my shared folder
	I needed to add my personal user (under the fedora virtualbox) to the vboxsf user group