How to run Gazebo + RVIZ on Windows 10 using WSL2 

I couldn´t get gazebo to run but this solved my problem. Thank you!!!!

OMG THANK YOU!!!

I tried using Ubuntu 20.04 and ROS Foxy, there is no errors in the coding however the GUI still not appeared. How to fix this?

This is exactly what I got as errors Please how did you go about it

Hi. For this you need to type the command: sudo strip --remove-section=.note.ABI-tag /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ This arises because of different directory locations.

@@isuriarachchige5659 I've got the same problem and when i try this i get :"strip: Warning: '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/' is a directory" and nothing changes. any idea ?

well i asked my best friend chat gpt and turned out this worked :" sudo find /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ -type f -exec sh -c 'file {} | grep ELF && strip --remove-section=.note.ABI-tag {}' \; "

Glad to hear! Have a nice day and weekend :) Best regards, Emil

Does it always take this long?

how did you manage to do that?

@@alimaiee1647 sadly I don't remember.

Thank you for this nice comment!

Hello Aufar and sorry for my late answer. I'm using Ubuntu 20.04 and the version of ROS is Noetic Ninjemys and for Gazebo i use version 11.1.0, I hope that helped you, have a nice day and please tell me if you have any wishes of content or something else. Best regards Emil Vidmark

I have the same error

Edit. Aparently my .bashrc file was missing this "source /opt/ros/noetic/setup.bash" export GAZEBO_IP=127.0.0.1 export DISPLAY=$(cat /etc/resolv.conf | grep nameserver | awk '{print $2}'):0 export LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=0 once I added all those I could run both rviz and gazebo. To edit. bashrc sudo nano ~/.bashrc scroll down to the bottom, then past the code to save press cntrl+o - Enter then cntrl+x

@@TheMomentumhd Hi I added the lines to the bashcr file but nothing changed :(

I have same issue.

Glad I could help :-)

Have you came up with any solution? I have the same problem :c

same problem here

Hi, I was also having the same problem. I couldnt open rviz and gazebo. First of all I re-install VcXsrv and configure again regarding the tutorial. After that i followed the tutorial and finally i can open rviz. For gazebo, i restart my computer and re-open VcXsrv and wsl. After copy and paste the commands which already written on the video's description, i can also open gazebo!

Thank you very much

Nice! I'm glad it helped you. Hope you are having a good day :)

Thank you! 1) I'm not sure how specific the Gazebo version and ROS version has to be to work, what I do know though is that if you do the full desktop install of ROS you will get the right Gazebo Version as it is included in the Full install. 2) No the solution does not need a graphic card driver. WSL2 is not currently working with external GPU:s at the moment, but from what I've found it seems like it is in development at the moment, so for now your internal graphics has to be used sadly... Please keep me updated on how it is going and I will try to help you as much as I can :-) Thank you for your nice words, I appreciate it

@@emilvidmark I tried it today. The simulation I'm talking about: github.com/disaster-robotics-proalertas/usv_sim_lsa * Gazebo program worked and i got 1.0 sim time/real time ratio, 10-15 fps at a blank project (these numbers prove WSL2 can't use external GPU) but the simulation I wanted to run didn't worked. I don't know what was the problem but I remember that I faced something like that on ubuntu 16.04 native. * RViz didn't opened and I forgot to write down the error message I got specifically. Error was about screen monitoring I guess. It wasn't the one in the video at 3:25 . I don't know if I will get back into solving that. * WSL is such an alternative to virtual machine and definitely easier to understand than Docker. I'm glad I learned it. It can come in handy. The most important update is; I realized that the github repository also had a master-melodic branch. I will check that out on ubuntu 18.04 native setup tomorrow. So, lessons I learned today; * Check issues tab of a repository FIRST if you face with a problem trying to get that project running. Don't google some error messages first and check the issues tab last like I did. * Solutions like Docker are the way of future. At the marine simulations, VRX simulation environment is also used commonly. They have implemented their simulation to Docker for running it (which is ROS melodic based) on different OS'. Thanks for your interest on my progress and thanks for your willing to help. Since robotics is a trending branch, so many undergraduate students (like me) study it. It is quite a holy work you do in my perspective.

have you solved it i have the same now and i need solution plllz

@@hilbel2656 No, i'm still in the dark with this one

@@banfigore2820 thank you if i found one i will tell you

In consequence, i tried webots, but i will do a separate partition of my hard on which i'll install ubuntu, and try again

Are working with robotics ?

Yes I think the problem with most VMs, and also the setup I use is as you say with the GPU performance, I have a strong CPU which seems to handle the load well, but the absolute best for performance would be to run Ubuntu.

Hi. Yeah you can. It is the WSL terminal

@@isuriarachchige5659 Thanks for the reply. I completed the mentioned steps, but after typing gazebo, its not opening GazeboSim. Any ideas on that?

When you install ROS make sure you run the full install: sudo apt install ros-noetic-desktop-full Gazebo will then be installed, if you have run that command and it still do not work, close the terminal and reopen it. Do not run "apt install gazebo" because you might install the wrong version which can cause troubles later

Nice Linda! :-) That's strange, from what I can see your computer seems to have an external graphics card (Nvidia Geforce GTX 1650?) so it should have power to run it properly I think. Does both Rviz and Gazebo run on low fps or just one of them? Also, have you checked that your power plan settings is set to "Performance" in Windows 10?

@@emilvidmark thanks for answering :) they are both on low fps... sadly wsl2 seems to have no access to external graphics cards, yet! but the fps rate shouldn't be so low anyway (around 2) :( I've tried enabling the Performace mode as you suggested but nothing changed

@@vit_linda No problem, I will continue to look into this problem and return to you if I find a solution. Please recall if you find a solution before I do, I'm really interested in finding a solution for this :-)

@@vit_linda I've been searching for a solution to the problem, but without success sadly... But as you mention, "not yet", it seems like it is a very requested feature and something the development team of wsl is working on. Hopefully they have a solution soon! Have a nice day, and sorry that I couldn't help you out with this... :-/

@@emilvidmark absolutely no problem, thank you so much for trying, I really appreciate! :) Have a nice day too

Thank you very much! My first tip is to check the first path you pasted, it seems to have a double slash between "fuel_tools" and "config.yaml" so the path might not exists. Try see if you can find and fix that path. Best regards Emil

Hello, for some support: 1. Make sure that GAZEBO_IP is set to 127.0.0.1 2. When you start Xlaunch, make sure you uncheck OpenGL 3. Try running this again: export DISPLAY=$(cat /etc/resolv.conf | grep nameserver | awk '{print $2}'):0 4. And also make sure you run this command if you open up a new terminal: export LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=0 Please contact me again if it doesn't work. Have a nice day :)

You have to go to the Windows Defender System control panel and enable the "VcXsrv windows xserver" app by putting a tick on both public and private boxes. Then, by following the instructions of the video step-by-step, Gazebo should work fine.

@@emilvidmark Hello Emil, I have followed all the steps, but when I enter de gazebo command it just jumps to a new line. Other programs such has the ROS consoles work perfectly with XLaunch.

I have the exact same issue, did you manage to solve it?

@@emilvidmark I tried this but the gui still does not seem to appear

Yes sir that is possible :-)

Hello, jus install the full desktop version of ROS and gazebo will be included :-)

@@emilvidmark Thank you!

Yes that is correct

@@emilvidmark Thank you, when you say we need to install ROS, RVIZ and Gazebo, do we install for Ubuntu or Windows?

@@josiahcastaneda1861 so what we do is that we install the Ubuntu version of ROS, Gazebo and RVIZ on our Ubuntu Linux subsystem on Windows. So technically it is the Ubuntu versions we install. I hope that bring you some clarity :)

Most probably not as WSL 1 is quite limited in comparisson to WSL 2.

@@emilvidmark Hi i installed WSL2 now and get this error after i followed your Tutorial: qt.qpa.xcb: could not connect to display :0 qt.qpa.plugin: Could not load the Qt platform plugin "xcb" in "" even though it was found. This application failed to start because no Qt platform plugin could be initialized. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem. Available platform plugins are: eglfs, linuxfb, minimal, minimalegl, offscreen, vnc, xcb. Aborted At this point i only installed rviz not gazebo

i found this the top of window edge and move to mouse cursor and right button!