On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 7:00 PM, Maneesh Singh wrote: > Hi, > I am new to robotics and want to start experimenting with ROS. I wanted to > find out if there are any issues with installing and using ROS on a VMWare > Ubuntu image on a PC with Windows XP. Some of our students tried that in the past. The basic ROS commands worked, but rviz did not run well in a virtual machine. We've been advising them to install Ubuntu in a separate partition and dual boot. If that has changed, I'd like to know about it. --  joq