PLC programming in Linux

[@dvhsolutions]

Hey Jakob, I have been running this setup since 2022. And working as a charme. especially usb and tty passthough is perfect and flawless. Great video.

[@JClavierIngSyst]

Thanks to share your experience Jacob. I use myself Linux Mint as main desktop and use Virt-manager/Qemu/KVM for all my automation VM using Windows 10. It took a bit time to use it like Virtual Box (especially Networks and file sharing config), but now I see all the power of KVM with gives much better performance than VB or VMWare.

[@michaelschalck]

Great video Jakob :) Looking forward to give this a try during the weekend and see if I can connect to my CX7000 from a VM :D

[@JakobSagatowski]

Sounds like a fun weekend project! 😊

[@granenggravsteen4171]

Great video. I use proxmox on a laptop. Since Proxmox is debian based (i think), a fun solution is to install a desktop env on the proxmox server. The how to for this is on the official Proxmox documentation. This is also great if you depoly scada systems on proxmox. You can then migrate a vm from your laptop to the production server. A great choice for scada if you love Linux is Ignition. Both the server and developer IDE is made for Linux and Windows.

[@jaans3712]

Can you imagine the situation if VSCode existed when Twincat3 was developed? I bet that Beckhoff would have gone with VSCode and now we’d have a cross platform editor and the runtime could be inside a freebsd virtual machine 😭

[@TomCaudi]

Imagine programming TC ST in VSC? Holy wonderful ❤

[@TimVloeberghs]

I'm running it in Proxmox on a W10Pro machine. It does glitch from time to time though. But when combining it with a TwinCAT BSD I'm also running on the Proxmox server, it works like a charm.

[@JakobSagatowski]

Proxmox is amazing!

[@TimVloeberghs]

@@JakobSagatowski It is. I actually used your video "TwinCAT/BSD in a virtual machine" as a guideline to get it working in Proxmox ;-) so I'm very grateful for the great videos you make.

[@TradieTrev]

Was watching this video and thinking the same thoughts WSL doesn't cut it for me.

[@giuseppegambacorta9522]

Love KVM on linux, also some tips: install VirtIO drivers on windows and configure the devices in the KVM settings, you can bound some cores of the cpu to the VM, you can change the number of hugepages for fit the VM ram and so on. Withouth KVM, you can also only use Virtualbox/WMware and use the same VM's that you are using on windows, they run a lot smoother on linux.

[@Kniven69]

Great video! Missing the commands for copy/paste here in the comments!

[@JakobSagatowski]

Sorry, forgot to attach them. They are in the video description now!

[@TomScryleus]

Great video. Loved the thumbnail.

[@JakobSagatowski]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@steventrompet3151]

For a year now I use TC XAE/XAR on Win10 on Proxmox, which is Debian+KVM+Graphical layer. It works very fine. What's your experience in the difference between using Proxmox or the bare KVM ?

[@JakobSagatowski]

The proxmox solution is fantastic, and I especially like the nice user interface for managing VMs, which is vastly superior. Though it requires some additional work, it's extremely powerful. KVM is nice if you already have a running Linux machine and want to use VMs locally.

[@laylatrix22]

I've tried but failed with this setup 2-3x in the past. I could not setup the GPU Passthrough (on Dell Precision 7520 Muxed laptop). Stuck with VMWare on Windows because of photoshop and MS Access.

[@robertnabholz2062]

Hey Jakob, is there a way to do this without having to actual bring up the WinOS? So the Windows apps are available direct in the linux environment, with the Windows OS running in the "background".

Hi Jakob, it's nice video about installing KVM on Linux, however I'm newbie to Linux so I'm looking for the commands you entered into Terminal. Maybe I overlooked them, but I didn't find them. May I ask you to insert them somewhere? It's not possible to read whole line in video at time 2:28. Thanks a lot and HAPPY CODING.

[@JakobSagatowski]

Sorry, forgot to attach them. They are in the video description now!

[@adrianjenkner2775]

Great video. Thank you. How does the performance compare to VMware / Hyper-V / VirtualBox? If anyone has a comparison, please let me know.

[@JakobSagatowski]

I've only used KVM, Hyper-V and VirtualBox. As KVM and Hyper-V are type-1 hypervisors, they are massively much faster than VirtualBox, which is a type-2 hypervisor.

[@yannickasselin1]

Been using Linux Mint as my host machine with all my VMs in VirtualBox for more than 5 years now. I tried KVM for a while but went back to VirtualBox. Mainly because of it's compatibility with Windows hosts if I ever need to run my VMs on Windows as well. I cannot wait to try Codesys Go when it will be released. Should then be possible to code directly in a web browser on Linux.

[@MaxMustermann-bm7qt]

We run your emergency setup. Windows and PLC runtime as a VM in Virtual box. However the new twincat release has problems with old versions on the machine so we gotta do the development in a vm soon anyways.