[ros-dev] VMWare (player) image of ROS

[Brandon Turner]

Starting in 0.2.9 we now release VMplayer images.  I'm suprised you 
never got any feedback about it on the mailing list.  We talk about it 
in IRC mostly i guess.

Here is a link to the release of the VMware Player Image:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/reactos/reactos0.2.9-REL-vmplayer.zip?download

Brandon

Oliver Schneider wrote:

>A while ago, when it was mentioned that ROS 2.9 is soon to be released I
>proposed to put out a VMWare image of it - never got a reply though, or
>missed it. It has been mentioned multiple times that VMWare is used by some
>ROS-devs, so this shouldn't be a problem in the first place.
>
>Since the authors of VMWare have released a so-called VMWare-Player (see
>http://www.vmware.com/products/player/ ), it is easy for anyone to get both
>(given that they don't have VMWare, yet). VMWare is certainly faster than
>QEMU or Bochs for several reasons and thus would be a better "experience"
>for potential ROS testers and users.
>
>And please don't tell me that is a kind of endorsement of VMWare, since the
>link on the website already is. There is at least one (much cheaper)
>alternative to VPC and VMWAre, called Parallels which is not mentioned on
>the website at all ( http://www.parallels.com/en/products/workstation/ ).
>
>I just wanted to remind all of you of this idea for (re)consideration.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Oliver
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