Labview executable for linux (server)

[ThomasV]

Hi,

I want to deploy a small labview executable to a virtual machine.

The labview application is just a TCP gateway.

The OS is still up for debate. I just want the OS to have a small footprint.

Ideally, I would use the LabVIEW Linx toolkit and deploy my application to a raspberry pi.

That way I can do all development from Windows, and have a small footprint to run the executable.

However I need to deploy to a VM, and I can't virtualize the raspberry pi, as it is ARM-based.

(the hypervisor is TrueNAS/bHyve)

So I was thinking of creating a headless Ubuntu server VM, to run the labVIEW executable on.

So I need to build a linux-executable with LabVIEW for linux, and deploy it to the ubuntu server VM.

However as Ubuntu server has no GUI, can LabVIEW executables run on it?

[AeroSoul]

Don't know anything about LabVIEW on Linux, but this article says you can install GUI on Ubuntu Server if you need one.

[ThomasV]

Hi,

I explicitly chose Ubuntu server, because it has no GUI, as I want to keep the footprint (disk, RAM, cpu) as low as possible.

So I wanted to know if a labview linux exe can run in a linux environment without GUI.

[ThomasV · Accepted solution]

Found an article that explains how to run LabVIEW code on headless linux :

https://knowledge.ni.com/KnowledgeArticleDetails?id=kA00Z0000019RYlSAM&l=nl-BE