(ROS in WSL2) + (ROS on Windows) communication

asked 2020-01-12 10:57:36 -0500

ZOU Lu gravatar image

Hi, everyone.

What I really want is to develop in WSL2 ROS, and run Rviz natively on Windows. However, there is one problem I can't solve:

  • Rviz (on native Windows) can communicate with roscore (on WSL2)
  • Rviz (on native Windows) CAN'T communicate with nodes/advertisers/publishers (on WSL2)

I've already configured ROS on Windows with ROS_MASTER_URI and ROS_IP.

One possible reason: Ubuntu on WSL2 share the same hostname as the host Windows, but different ip address (as WSL2 is running as a hyper-v virtual machine). Even though I can change /etc/hostname and /etc/hosts to rename Ubuntu, when roscore runs, it still shows the same name as the Windows host.

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Hi,

did you find a solution for this communication issue? i have the same problem.

matthias88 gravatar image matthias88  ( 2020-11-08 09:27:58 -0500 )edit