Gantry oxyfuel / plasma type machine from scratch

Hi RodW, yeah, sure. I am aware of that. The idea is just to get comfortable and experiment withe the Linuxcnc functionalities, configs etc.... of course later when I get all the stuff set up then will be a dedicated computer with real hardware.

rodw wrote:

LinuxCNC will run on VirtualBox and so on and this is handy to do basic testing and configuration. There is a limit on what can be done on a sim without real hardware.

 

That works. I run several versions of LinuxCNC as virtual machines at once in virsh during development/testing efforts. Virtualbox is great, too, but I got to fighting it all the time on my headless server. Virsh played nicer for me in configuring virtual machines on the headless server over ssh, then I connect with those VMs using Remmina remote desktop.