Install VM

Virtual machines are basically some software which run just like a regular PC but without any physical components. They use the host’s hardware equipments as a guest. Since ROS works best on Linux based operating systems but we assume most of you have Windows PCs, we provide this ready-to-use solution for you to start ROS as smooth as possible.

There will be two components:

1. The virtual appliance

2. A software to run the virtual appliance (VMware)

The admin password inside the virtual appliance is: ros

Virtual Appliance

A virtual appliance is a copy of a working operating system and its programs. We provide you ready-to-use virtual copy of what you need. To download it, use this link with your HVL credentials. After downloading, extract the folder inside the .zip file.

Virtual Appliance Player

A virtual appliance player is a software on which you can run your virtual appliance (aka. a virtual copy of a system). We suggest you to download VMware for this purpose.

VMware Install

You can download VMware here: Windows/Linux download, Mac download. After installing it you can import the virtual appliance by clicking Open a Virtual Machine and choose the .vmx file from inside the previously downloaded and extracted folder.

After you finished importing the virual appliance, go to Edit virtual machine settings and in Display settings enable Accelerate 3D graphics and choose recommended Graphics Memory from the dropdown box as shown in the pictures.

Also make sure, that in the Network Adapter settings, under Network connection, NAT is selected, as shown in the pictures below.

When first opening the virtual machine, the following window will pop-up. Select I Copied It to continue.

Troubleshooting

Note

For those who don’t use the given virtual copy and choose to install the necessary software and packages by themselves use the following links: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, ROS Melodic, Necessary Turtlebot packages, MATLAB 2020a.