VMware Image

Wed, 27 Jan 2010 12:42:19 +0900 (203d)

Try it on VMware Player Edit

VMware is a PC virtualization software that is released from VMware, Inc. VMware Player is free version of VMware product that can run VMware image file created by other VMware. You can try easily OpenRTM-aist on the VMware without preparing Linux box.

Donwloading VMware Player Edit

VMware Player is available from the following VMware Inc.'s web page.

After download VMware-player-x.y.z-?????.exe, run it on your Windows PC. If you already have installed VMware (Workstation, Player, Server), this process is not necessary

VMware Image Edit

Download OpenRTM-ready VMware image file from the following.

After downloading this file, extract the zip file on your PC. Total size of the extracted VMware image file is about 2GB. Be careful of your available disk size.

Spec. of the Virtual PC Edit

Specification
Main memory256MB
HDD4.0GB
Network settingBridge
CD-ROMAuto detect
FDDConnected
USBConnected
Linux Configuration
DistricutionFedora Core 6
Installed packagesOpenRTM and X runnable packages + samba, apache
Servicesamba (pre-configured)
httpd(pre configured)
Default user id/passwordopenrtm/openrtm
Root's passwordopenrtm
Network settingDHCP

Boot the Virtual PC Edit

After extracting ziped VMware image, the folder OpenRTM-aist-FC6 will appear. Double click Other Linux 2.6.x kernel.vmx and launch VMware.

Try OpenRTM-aist Edit

After booting Fedora Core 6 , please login as openrtm with password openrtm. You can find the directory OpenRTM-aist-0.4.0 on your home directory. Entering the OpenRTM-aist-0.4.0 directory, you can find examples directory with some example components. For example, entering SimpleIO directory and run run.sh, you will find that two RT-Components ConsoleInComp and ConsoelOutComp'' are running on each terminal. (If you cannot run run.sh, see FAQ)

Before try some example RT-Components, please install Eclipse and RtcLink on your Windows host PC.