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The command runs in Ubuntu-VMware workstation,and I have installed the driver of openni_kinect in ubuntu.But the results is 'no devices connected',so how can I do next? Thank you very much!
*ocean@ubuntu:~$ rosrun openni_camera openni_node
I am running VMware Player 4 with a virtual machine of Ubuntu 11.10 and have installed openkinect libraries. I can see my Kinect and the freenect-glview demo works and displays the RGB depth image and a full color video image side by side. It is tricky to get the Ubuntu to "see" the kinect device however, as Windows 7 grabs it first when it is plugged in. But there is a pulldown in Player ... VirtualMachine-> RemovableDevices-> where the "microsoft xbox nui motor" shows up. If you select it, there is a field that says "Connect(Disconnect from host)". If I select that, it disconnects from the "host" which is Windows 7 and "Connects" to it with Ubuntu. After a few seconds, two other devices show up in this list: "microsoft xbox nui camera" and "microsoft xbox nui audio". Go through the same process to Connect to both of those as well. Once they are all connected, they should show up as little USB drive icons at the bottom of VMware Player as well. After that, the freenect-glview works (at least for me). I am on a 64 bit Dell with 32 bit virtual Ubuntu. BTW, I tried this same process running Ubuntu in Virtual Box, and never got it to see the Kinect.
The Kinect doesn't work in a VMWare guest (at least, it doesn't work when using the openni drivers).
This is widely-reported and reproducible.
Even if you can make the VM to connect to the Kinect, you still might not get data from it because the connection protocol is too slow. What I have is PCL-Win32 on Windows 7 and it includes the ros-sdk-electric for windows (Boost 1.44 because it is needed for the ros-sdk). I then use the PCL_IO to connect to the kinect, convert the data into PointCloud2 and I publish it. When you publish topics using the ros-win you have to setup the Linux machine as a master. I can get the published PointCloud2 data on the VM or on any Linux running machine. You can use the PointCloud2 as it is or convert it to sensor_msgs::Image or a different type of data depending on your application. As a side note, I installed the PCL from source (not the prebuild one) and replaced the sensor_msgs (PCL/trunk/common/include/sensor_msgs) with the sensor_msgs header files from my linux machine (opt/ros/electric/stacks/common_msgs/sensor_msgs/msg_gen/cpp/include/sensor_msgs). You only need to build pcl_common and pcl_io in order to connect to the kinect. You can use the pcl_openni_io example to see how to callback on XYZRGB Point and use the /pcl/ros/conversions.h to see how to convert that to PointCloud2. Do not use the toROSmsg() function provided by the pcl but copy the function directly in your code. The publishing rate is pretty high, I tested my code between 2 laptops (one windows one linux os) and it still had decent publishing rate, the rate is even higher if you use a windows host and a linux guest on a VM.
It might seem like a lot of work but having PCL with ROS running on Windows is pretty awesome, especially if you are running a VM. You can reduce the CPU load from the VM by running some code on Windows.
Hope this helps, Ivan
Asked: 2012-03-28 21:21:09 -0500
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Last updated: Apr 04 '12
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