Have you used a virtual system to install a control system? Is it possible?
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I want to install the DCS configuration software on my office computer to learn*, but since many systems have quite high requirements and insist on NT or the English version of 2000, it’s not possible for me to reinstall my computer with NT or that English version. Therefore, I want to install a virtual system that meets the configuration requirements on my computer, in order to use the demo version of the DCS configuration software. I was wondering if there are any friends on the forum who have installed a virtual system to run the DCS configuration software? How can this be achieved? Please give me some advice! Thank you
That’s possible; you can simply install a virtual machine and then proceed with installing the software following the normal steps. I use CS3000 as well as Honeywell products
These days, I basically use virtual machine environments to run DCS tests; in many cases, the actual configuration is carried out within those virtual machine environments.
Use VMware or VisualBox for virtual machines; VisualBox is smaller in size. Install the operating system you want, and then install the DCS software. Just find any tutorial online on installing an OS on a virtual machine.
The PKS system I use is one in a virtual system
Yes, as long as there is enough space and memory
The CS3000 installed on VMware works fine
Siemens SPPA (Siemens Nanjing Power Plant Automation Engineering Co., Ltd.) can be considered one of the first companies in the industry to use virtual machine platforms for automation. It first utilized hard fault-tolerant servers – FT Servers, and later adopted EverRun, a virtual machine fault-tolerance platform developed by Marathor. We will now start using VMware’s ESXi virtual machine fault tolerance platform. Note that most of the SPPA projects are above 12K points; it can be said that none of them are small-scale projects. Many virtual machine systems are used, and for security reasons, they employ redundant and fault-tolerant virtual machine platforms. In addition to Siemens SPPA, ABB PA also provides decent support for virtual machines. The latest 800xA V5.1 now supports virtualized deployment. VMware ESX is also supported. Rockwell-AB announced that all versions of its software now support VMware Ready. In other words, the latest versions of software can run stably on virtual machine platforms for use in industrial production environments, rather than just being used for testing in laboratory settings. Emerson’s DeltaV system for process management has announced support for virtualization platforms, but there has yet to be an official announcement confirming its full use in engineering applications. GE has announced that the latest version of its software is VMware Ready. The latest versions of Invensys-Wonderware’s Intouch, IAS, InSQL, and InBatch have also been declared VMware Ready. --In conclusion, the support of virtualization by industrial automation software has become an unstoppable trend.
I wonder when Xixi University’s central control system will also support virtual systems; WINXP isn’t perfect yet
Sure. . . . I’ve always used it this way
I’ve used KingView for configuration; I haven’t tried anything else.