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I've found that the visualisation performance (Gazebo and RViz) is quite poor when running ROS in Virtualbox on my Mac. I have also had issues with sensors working correctly in a virtual machine.

I eventually made an Ubuntu partition specifically for ROS, and that has worked out very well. If you're happy with the more permanent nature of that approach, I would strongly recommend it.

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