lguest

[Enrico Weigelt]

Hi folks,

does ROS run under lguest ?

I'm currently building an lguest-based VM (mass-)hosting service, 
and it would be a cool thing if ROS (as win32 alternative) could
be easily run there.

My business model includes free VMs on spare resources, which 
can be quickly deployed (within a minute), for testing and fun.
I'd like to provide ROS as one of the preinstalled images, so
it will get a bit more audience :)


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[Andrew Faulds]

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.
Try Ubuntu instead.

On 14 May 2010 08:02, Enrico Weigelt <weigelt(a)metux.de> wrote:

>   Hi folks,
>
>  does ROS run under lguest ?
>
>  I'm currently building an lguest-based VM (mass-)hosting service,
>  and it would be a cool thing if ROS (as win32 alternative) could
>  be easily run there.
>
>  My business model includes free VMs on spare resources, which
>  can be quickly deployed (within a minute), for testing and fun.
>  I'd like to provide ROS as one of the preinstalled images, so
>  it will get a bit more audience :)
>
>
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[Enrico Weigelt]

* 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.

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 :)


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[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.