![]() Start up Fusion and choose the option “Install from disc or image”.On a virtual machine you wanna consume less resources unless absolutely necessary so that you don’t slow down your host machine / os. Its a pretty solid distro for ROS use and gets the job done. I used Lubuntu because it is a lighter flavor of ubuntu with all the goodness and none of the more fancy stuff (bells and whistles). There is a third option called Virtualbox which is free but its more difficult to setup and has known issues with 3D acceleration which may make using Gazebo problematic. Though if you’re a student you can get student pricing. Download and install VMWare Fusion (8.5 is what I’m using), I know of another virtualization option called Parallels but that is known to be more expensive than fusion in the long-term.Ubuntu Version: Lubuntu 14.04.5 (Lubuntu has all the goodness of ubuntu without the heavy add ons, good for virtual machines where you want to minimize resource consumption). ![]() (I tried in El Capitan and it worked there as well). ![]() Hardware: Macbook Pro Retina 15″ Mid 2015 (Model 11,5) running macOS Sierra. ![]() Another issue is that the latest linux kernel doesn’t play well with the Macbook’s hardware, e.g., I could not get my machine to shutdown and it would get stuck which meant I would have to hard shutdown by keeping the power key pressed. That being said, I learned from a friend about the wonders of virtual machines, so here’s what I did. Having a linux dual boot on a mac is doable and I have done it in the past (see instructions if you’re interested), but I just felt that giving up hard disk space for another operating system with a limited 512GB of storage is not something I wanted to do. I primarily use a Mac for my work, but since a I do a lot of robotics I have to switch over to Ubuntu to use ROS. ![]()
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