VMWare (player) image of ROS

[Oliver Schneider]

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

[TwoTailedFox]

I have the last RC of 5.5, so I can upload them if need be. Someone
was running an FTP archive a while back, IIRC, with VMWare Images.

On 12/28/05, Oliver Schneider [e-mail] 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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> http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev

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[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?dow...

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
> _______________________________________________
> Ros-dev mailing list
> [e-mail]
> http://www.reactos.org/mailman/listinfo/ros-dev

[Oliver Schneider]

Now I know what was my problem. You detect the browser language on your
website and there is an inconsistency between the German and the English
version. Now after I looked at the English version I saw that very image.

Could someone please add this to the German website part?!

Thanks for pointing me to it.

Oliver
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[Friedrich Stange]

> Now I know what was my problem. You detect the browser language on your
> website and there is an inconsistency between the German and the English
> version. Now after I looked at the English version I saw that very image.
>
> Could someone please add this to the German website part?!
>
> Thanks for pointing me to it.
>
> Oliver

I have add it to the german website.

Friedrich

[sumit singh]

hi ,

my apologies if i am not supposed to send message here,
i am a windows developer and i recently downloaded the react os code and
build it,
i tried creating an image of the build and ran it in vmware networking was
not working ,
then i downloaded one image from react os website and still networking was
not working,
i would love to contribute to the project specially making networking code
work with testing or developement,
if you need any help in testing or something please give me some pointers
and what you want me to do.

thanks and  regards,
sumising

[Horváth Róbert]

hi,

the best way to get familiar with the networking code is:
1, take a look at the wiki, doxygen sites
2, come to irc and speak with developers (#ReactOS at irc.freenode.net) 
- this is the best way to start with anything
3, dig in deeply in the source ;]
4, look at bugzilla and if you find an easy bug ask if anybody working 
on it, if not shoot it down

bridged network in vmware used to work for me..

talley

ps: for network related questions I think you should contact Ged, Art or 
Alex on irc, they have worked on netcode recently.

sumit singh wrote:
> hi ,
>
> my apologies if i am not supposed to send message here,
> i am a windows developer and i recently downloaded the react os code and
> build it,
> i tried creating an image of the build and ran it in vmware networking was
> not working ,
> then i downloaded one image from react os website and still networking was
> not working,
> i would love to contribute to the project specially making networking code
> work with testing or developement,
> if you need any help in testing or something please give me some pointers
> and what you want me to do.
>
> thanks and  regards,
> sumising

[Ged Murphy]

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

You obviously didn't bother to check before sending this mail out :
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/reactos/reactos0.2.9-REL-vmplayer.zip?dow...

[Alex Buell]

On Wed, 28 Dec 2005 19:54:51 +0100 (MET) "Oliver Schneider"
[e-mail] waved a wand and this message magically appeared:
> I just wanted to remind all of you of this idea for (re)consideration.

If anyone's interested I can put up latest build VMware images - just
ask.
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