I got Coral USB stick last month. I've been playing that with Raspberry Pi3.
That is a very cool product because with Coral USB the performance is pretty good.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BxSmI5QFIUZ/
But, the thing is Raspberry Pi3B+ cannot use USB3.0 which means data transferring between Pi and Coral is limited.
So I really wanted to use Coral with USB3.0, however, unfortunately recently Parallel Desktop lite got a paid software and I didn't install it on Mac(not sure why).
In this post, I will explain how to set up VirtualBox env for Coral. I think it's been a while since the last time I used VirtualBox.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BxYIPQzFbfI/
1 Get VirtualBox
You need to get the latest one since I tried to use 5.2.22(not the latest version) and spent so much time then it didn't work. Once I switched from 5.2.22 to 6.0.6. Everything works perfectly.
https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
2 Get Ubuntu (LTS version)
I think you can use 16.04 or 18.04. I'm using 18.04 since I use that for my GPU machine for training models. Maybe you can use 19.04, but not sure.
https://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop
3 Install Ubuntu on VirtualBox
This article is very useful if you don't have any experience with VirtualBox.
https://medium.com/@tushar0618/install-ubuntu-16-04-lts-on-virtual-box-desktop-version-30dc6f1958d0
4 Add USB Device Filters
This is the most important part of this article.
When you do this, you have to turn off your virtual machine
Settings > Ports > USB
(the machine is running. sorry I'm lazy...)
If you power off your machine, you can select USB3.0. Then you need to add 2 USB Device Filters. Probably you just need to add one the following.
3-1. Click Add button
3-2. Select Global Unichip Corp [0100]
3-3. Add one more
3-4. Select one filter you added and edit filter settings
Name: you can put anything you want
Vendor ID: 18d1
Product ID: 9302
5 Setup EdgeTPU
We are almost there. You can follow the link.
https://coral.withgoogle.com/docs/accelerator/get-started/
Seems Google update edgetpu, so we don't need to change the install shell script anymore, but I think edgetpu is optimized for python3.5.
So I set up a virtual environment for that. As you know there are some ways to set up virtual env. virtualenv, virtualenvwrapper, pyenv, pipenv and anaconda.
For this, I decided to use Anaconda since it just needs to type a couple of commands to set up the python3.5 environment.
Digital Ocean has a nice article on that.
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-anaconda-on-ubuntu-18-04-quickstart
After activating your virtual environment, probably you will need this.
$ pip install edgetpu-1.9.2-py3-none-any.whl
6 Run demo
Just follow the official guide (easy easy easy)
$ cd /usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/edgetpu/demo
$ python3 classify_image.py \
--model ~/Downloads/mobilenet_v2_1.0_224_inat_bird_quant_edgetpu.tflite \
--label ~/Downloads/inat_bird_labels.txt \
--image ~/Downloads/parrot.jpg
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Ara macao (Scarlet Macaw)
Score : 0.761719
Coral repos are on Github
https://github.com/google-coral
Additional Information
I just noticed that this post only works for the first time since something will change the Coral Edge TPU USB's Vender ID and Product ID
The solution
Remove the first settings
Vendor ID: 18d1
Product ID: 9302Add a new one
Vendor ID: 1a6e
Product ID: 089a
Probably these will work, but make sure that your Terminal app shows them when you runlsusbon your Mac.Reboot VirtualBox
Devices --> USB --> Google, Inc
Top comments (14)
hi Koji, thanks for writing this up.
I got it working thanks to your instructions. My biggest problem was that my old laptop, an Asus N53SV where I was planning on running this with from Windows 10 as host with Ubuntu 18.04 LTS in Virtualbox 6.1. This laptop uses a FrescoLogic FL1000 chip for USB 3.0 and it is absolutely incompatible with Linux and the Google TPU. I couldn't get it working in baremetal with Ubuntu, I couldn't get it working in VirtualBox.
VirtualBox sometimes gives a message saying that it failed to attach the device. In Linux itself I would get it in lsusb for brief second, only to disappear again.
Plugging the TPU into a USB2 port (Intel chipsets on this machine) works perfectly with your instructions, other than I didn't even need to change the USB filters afterwards.
Now you can use Coral EdgeTPU USB Accelerator without VirtualBox.
coral.ai/software/#edgetpu-python-api
Thanks for writing this up.
I have tried to encode these setup instructions in a Vagrantfile here: github.com/google-coral/project-po... (using Ubuntu bionic LTS, because it already has a supported version of python).
If you have a coral device and a Mac, please try out my branch and add your feedback to the PR.
nice! i will try it on weekend.
Thanks for the find. Now I got this working once on my MBP, but now I am no longer able to get it working. Tried SMC reset, rebooting the host and the VM, (latest)VirtualBox with the above tweak of the extra USB device, VMWare Fusion with and without the equivalent tweak in the vmx file, other USB ports and external powered ports. All no luck. I no longer get the "18d1:9302 Google Inc" device when I do "lsusb" in the VM, nor do I see it in the list of USB devices through MacOS's System Report (all I see is the composite device from Global Unichip).
Anyone having a Macbook Pro that has succeeded in keeping it working?
So in essence, the solution above is partial, those on Mac might hit extra hurdles.
Hey @hb020
Thank you for telling me this.
I just checked what you said.
I think I know what the issue is.
Will add the solution for that issue soon.
After some digging, this is what I found with VMWare Fusion (and I guess VirtualBox is something like this):
It just needs an init from a first run and a forced logical disconnect from the original device.
Instead of disconnect, a VM reboot sometimes also works, but it's not always successful.
Any physical power down of the device will force you to go through the process again.
It might be possible to automate this.
F.I.:
Initially, both the VM and the host (MBP in my case), show the USB device as:
Product ID: 0x089a
Vendor ID: 0x1a6e (Global Unichip Corp.)
After the "init + re-attach", both show the USB device as:
Product ID: 0x9302
Vendor ID: 0x18d1 (Google Inc.)
I have reached out to Google for guidance on making this easier.
okay cool, that is what i did exactly.
i think the issue is vbox since i haven't had any issues with raspberry pi and another device
Koji, when I run the final command:
python3 classify_image.py \
--model ~/Downloads/mobilenet_v2_1.0_224_inat_bird_quant_edgetpu.tflite \
--label ~/Downloads/inat_bird_labels.txt \
--image ~/Downloads/parrot.jpg
I get an error:
RuntimeError: Mmap of '/home/dan/Downloads/mobilenet_v2_1.0_224_inat_bird_quant_edgetpu.tflite' failed
Any idea what happens
Nevermind...the file wasn't properly downloaded
And one more question:
In your usb setup you have 3 usb devices, but the guide only shows setting up 2. Where does the "coral" device come from?
My bad, "coral" is dummy lol.
You just need 2. One is the modified version and the other is no-modified version.
You can come to the resident office during the lunchtime.
Ok...now I get another error:
"RuntimeError: Failed to allocate tensors"
Have you seen this?
Hey Dan,
Are you using the latest VirtualBox?