Setting up SITL using Vagrant

This article explains the way to established the SITL ArduPilot machine during a virtual machine atmosphere victimisation Vagrant, and connect it to a communication system Station running on the host laptop. This approach is far easier and quicker than manually putting in place a virtual machine to run SITL on macintosh OSX or Windows (or Linux).

Overview
The SITL (Software within the Loop) machine permits you to run Plane, Copter or Rover with none hardware. The machine runs the traditional ArduPilot code as a native possible on a UNIX laptop. SITL may also be run among a virtual machine on Windows, macintosh OSX or UNIX.

Vagrant may be a tool for automating putting in place and configuring development environments running in virtual machines. whereas it's potential to manually established SITL to run during a VM on Windows (or macintosh OSX), it's a lot of easier (and a lot of reproducible) to use Vagrant to try and do this work for you.

Preconditions

Git (1.8.x or later) must be installed on the host computer.

Git for Windows (1.9.5) is recommended.

Note

The current windows px4 toolchain (v14) does not have a
recent enough version of GIT

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