[MVRC] Mantium Virtual Racecar Challenge 2016

[Alonso Fan]

What I like so much about the championship is to see how the competitivness forces everyone to learn very fast and how that results into faster cars. If anyone is looking for a CFD / Aero engineer they should have a good look at who learns the fastest here. I think last year AratzH was a good example of that. Will he be this years new champ?
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It's funny that you say that, because it has actually happened(the aero engineer part, not the champ)!!
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Congrats

[CAEdevice]

It's funny that you say that, because it has actually happened(the aero engineer part, not the champ)!!

Do you work as an aero engineer? Did your victories had a role about obtaining the job?

Congrats!!!

The 2017 challenge will be very interesting. TF, JJR and Variante will fight for the final victory, CAEdevice has some new ideas to develop, I hope to make them work. It is great to have professional aero engineers or aerodynamics students as opponents: I am only a mechanical engineer.

I my little own, I completed my first professional job involving CFD: a small antenna where the vortex detachment frequency caused some mechanical resonances. The MVRC experience (and meshing with SnappyHexMesh) helped a lot.

[Alonso Fan]

Hi, so I tried making a new account on my tablet with a username with no spaces. This time however, the virtual machine didn't even show up. I open virtualbox to configure the machine and it wasn't there.

So I gave up on my tablet and removed all OF related stuff from my pc since it wasn't working at all. I then reinstalled v1606+ as per the instructions and configured the vm but there is still no username folder in the working directory

[rjsa]

But does the VM run? Can you access the shared folder from within the VM?

If you can you don't need an username folder.

[Alonso Fan]

Yes I can as far as I know. I will try as soon as I get home today

[rjsa]

If it does, you only have to setup the GUI as per the image I posted before and you're good to go.

[rjsa]

I hadn't seen your image before I posted mine. If you go into workingdir in the VM and type 'touch test.txt', no quotation marks, can you find said test.txt file in the windows file system?

[Alonso Fan]

ok so the vm runs fine, but mvrc helper gives the same error as last time, that the shared folder needs to be renamed c/users (which it already is)

[Alonso Fan]

and I tried touching the test.txt, and it says this:

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touch: cannot touch `test.txt': Permission denied

[rjsa]

no quotes

[rjsa]

also try 'sudo touch test.txt'

[rjsa]

can you post all the paths are they are seen by windows, virtualbox and the MVRC GUI?

[Alonso Fan]

can you post all the paths are they are seen by windows, virtualbox and the MVRC GUI?

paths for the shared directory?

everything is installed in C:\Program Files\...etc

shared folder is in E:\Users\S\Documents\OpenFoam cases\

[rjsa]

Create a folder with your user name under this 'OpenFoam' cases dir.

Go to 'info->directory info' in the GUI menu and post what's in there.

[Alonso Fan]

Create a folder with your user name under this 'OpenFoam' cases dir.

Go to 'info->directory info' in the GUI menu and post what's in there.