I just wanted to see anybody’s thoughts on this. My company utilizes HMIs in our OEM systems. The HMI is a large touchscreen attached to an Industrial PC with Ignition installed. We want to be able to deploy Ignition quickly on these HMIs. My thoughts are this: Either Windows 10 VM with ever…

You could use an approach like the Vagrant setup made by @Kevin.Collins . See this forum post: Vagrant-based Ignition Development VM

Yes, I saw that this morning. Looks interesting.

Making a small change to the Vagrantfile in that setup will also expose the underlying Ignition port to other NIC’s on the host system, allowing other folks to connect to it as though Ignition were hosted on Windows 10 itself. [image] Removing the host_ip definition against localhost for port 8088 …

Some rambling thoughts. These and a dollar might be worth about 98¢: If USB is available on the PC (and it’s rare to see one without), I use Hiren’s Boot CD bootable from a thumb drive, with drive images all on the same stick. No need to remove the drive to clone. I think you can do the same t…

I love this solution. You got the guts to ask “Why NOT Linux?”. Ubuntu, Centos or Linux Mint can do wonders.

I do all my daily computing on Linux. I keep a Win7 VM around for Rockwell Software and Quickbooks. Been doing things this way for six or seven years, now.

Another vote for Linux here. We’ve been running the company on it for over 7 years. We have a Windows box and Windows in a VM but they rarely get used. We’ve transferred most of our customers’ Ignition servers to Linux and remote support (and reinstalling on new hardware) is much easier.

Thank you for all of your responses. I personally use Linux at home, and love it. However, the following thoughts apply to our company (and I believe to how the Automation Industry as a whole used to act): I think the adage, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” would apply to why we utilize Windows…

[image] joe.brodersen: If Linux is chosen, what would be a good method of getting a distro and applicable programs installed onto an industrial PC (SSD) with all of our configurations already built-in? You might find this thread interesting, especially the newer comments near the end.

Here is the next step I’m working on: https://hub.docker.com/r/kcollins/ignition/ I have a lot more planned but I think it is a great start!

Rapidly deploying Ignition environments on Industrial PCs

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pturmel August 3, 2017, 7:34pm 10

You might find this thread interesting, especially the newer comments near the end.

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