On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 3:22 PM, liuwei@cmu.edu wrote: > Hi, > I installed  ROS on a VMWare Ubuntu image on a MAC. > I am using a kinect camera, when I run roslaunch openni_camera > openni_kinect.launch, > it is good. but there is nothing shows in rviz, no message could be > received. > When I use a rosbag file, it is good. Could you help me out? As others have reported lately, rviz does not usually work well in a virtual machine. It seems to need access to real 3D graphics hardware for adequate performance. The usual workaround is installing Ubuntu in a separate partition with dual boot. --  joq