the script creates VirtualBox Virtual Machine from Twincat BSD image provided by Beckhoff Automation
Download TwinCAT BSD image from Beckhoff automation website; Extract the zip file in the same directory where the script is located. the image file will be xxxx.iso open the script and modify the line 3 the "TCBSD-x64-12-40411.iso" to match your image name
SET sourcefilename="new image name.iso"
Run Create-TcBsdVM.ps1
where the first parameter is the virtual machine name and the second is the TCBSD image file that you will need to download and unzip the working folder.
The script will also verify the VirtualBox
installation at the location Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox
on the same drive where the working folder is located. If you have the VirtualBox installed in some other location, provide the path to that folder at the third positional parameter of the script.
The virtual machine folder will be created in the working folder.
Usage
PS C:\YOUR_FOLDER\.\Create-TcBsdVM.ps1 MyLovelyTcBSD TCBSD-x64-12-40411.iso
For an unattended installation, run Create-TcBsdVM-Unattended.ps1
with the same parameters as Create-TcBsdVM.ps1
.
However, you may want to provide a password for user Administrator
, e.g. Create-TcBsdVM-Unattended.ps1 -vmName myVM -adminPW YOUR-PASSWORD
If VMs network defaults to NAT
, you may not be able to connect to the PLC. Therefore you should set the virtual network either to Host-Only Adapter
if you are working with the PLC only from the host computer; or Bridged Adpater
to set up a physical connection to the outside network.