Re: [ros-general] lguest

[François Revol]

Le 11 août 2010 à 08:11, Enrico Weigelt a écrit :

>   * Andrew Faulds <ajfweb(a)googlemail.com> wrote:
>  
>  Hi,
>  
> >   ROS isn't suitable as a server OS, it lacks a
> > healthy network stack, we
> >  aren't sure if VNC works and it definitely isn't suitable for this kind of
> >  usage. It's in *ALPHA* stage, is very buggy, incomplete, and *NOT
> >  SUITABLE*for this kind of mainstream usage. 
>  
>  My idea was to provide it as a little playgound (along with other
>  not-so-well-known OS'es, eg. Plan9), just to have some fun
>  (these installations will run charge-free on spare resources),
>  hoping that this gets a bit more audience and helping hands to ros. 
You mean like
http://www.oszoo.org/wiki/index.php/Free_Live_OS_Zoo ?
(oh dear it seems down :()
At least the VM server is up:
http://floz.v2.cs.unibo.it:8880/

>   Anyways, having lguest support, would be a good thing:
> ros could
>  reuse many resources of the host system (eg. networking, and a lot
>  of devices supported by linux). Maybe some day that could fill the
>  gap between native Windows and wine :) 
I didn't follow the discussion, but if you just want to showcase ROS live on the web I
wrote a php script using QEMU and the VNC applet which does this for Haiku:
http://dev.haiku-os.org/browser/haiku/trunk/3rdparty/mmu_man/onlinedemo/hai…

François.