palam.c wrote: > On 3/31/06, Mike Harrison wrote: > >>On Thu, 30 Mar 2006 07:59:45 -0700, you wrote: >> >>>1. ONE ICD2 per Host PC is really not enough. I >>>am frequently involved in development where more >>>than one PIC needs to be developed AT THE SAME >>>TIME. Yes, I now use two PC's, and use a switch to >>>switch the mouse, keyboard, and video. But there is >>>no need to, in fact. > > > Is it possible to use two mplab debuggers at the > same time, using COM port ? I tried using USB it didn't > work. I don't have two COM ports so i was not able to > test it . > Anybody tested it ? Yes. You cannot get two instances of MPLAB to run. "Lock violation". You can't even get two different versions to INSTALL. They stomp on each others registry entries. (5 vs 6 since I wanted ICD and ICD2 at the same time). Anyone come across software that creates virtual machines for windows? If you have a VM, you could have more than one winblows running so more than one MPLAB. But given the tight coupling between MPLAB and the debugger (that's why the FIFO gets turned off, and why CPU usage is 100% when debugging), I doubt that a VM would work. Too much abstraction for the hardware. The shame is that it's really not THAT hard to allow multiple instances of a program (or program thread). It just takes a little bit of planning. Have any of the open source IDE's got around to making ICD/ICD2 work? Robert -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist