How to run Gazebo + RVIZ on Windows 10 using WSL2

In this video I will show you how to run Gazebo and RVIZ in Windows using WSL2. This is really helpful as it makes it opens up the posibility for ROS1 development on Windows 10.

Installation Instructions WSL2:

Installation of ROS, RVIZ and Gazebo:

Commands to run in WSL2:
export GAZEBO_IP=127.0.0.1
export LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=0

[d_printall]

OMG I love you, I had been trying for 2 days <3

[Stigmaru]

This totally helped after everything else i found online didn't work

[zhihuauk]

Thanks you so much Emil! You help me a lot!

[berktepe]

Thanks, it is working. Strange thing is that Gazebo was starting and I could even subscribe to camera topic of the Turtlebot3 from Rviz but Gazebo GUI was not starting. Now everything works.

[saeednami]

Tanks you a lot this video is so helpful thanks

[tomsai]

Thank you for this useful tutorial! By this method, can ros use gpu support instead of only cpu?

[CaseyGregoire]

Running 20.04, and ROS foxy, had to include both of these to see the robot mesh during the moveit tutorial.
export LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1
export LIBGL_ALWAYS_INDIRECT=0

[wh]

Thanks sir . gazebo is ok but rviz no

This message appeared

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

[namanjaohari]

hey can you please me out with this

qt.qpa.xcb: could not connect to display
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.

[deadyanothaikiropoolchait]

Right now we can connect WSL to Arduino. Let's

[chiamakambanefo]

if gazebo works and rviz keeps giving an error, try running a wsl --update in the windows terminal and try again. this worked for me. took hours to figure out

[elbudmg]

thank u for this video, can you please explain how to install gazebo and rviz before implementing this video?

[draggador]

Would the steps be mostly the same for ros 2, rviz 2 & ignition gazebo with wsl 2 & ubuntu 22 on windows 10?

[aliumman]

ı take this error:
Command 'gazebo' not found, but can be installed with:
sudo apt install gazebo

[aufarik]

Emil, thank you for the tutorial! Could you please specify which version of Ubuntu in WSL and, respectively, ROS/Gazebo version are you using?

[jaeyounglee]

Before this you have to install 1.ros 2.rviz 3.gazebo
am I right?

[futuresciences]

is this how i install gazebo or i need something else to install it p;ease answer me?

[Swifter_Developer]

Amazing, Can I Connect SITL Ardupilot to Gazebo in windows?

[aVTuser]

Hi I'm getting this error

libGL error: No matching fbConfigs or visuals found
libGL error: failed to load driver: swrast
X Error of failed request: BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)
Major opcode of failed request: 143 (GLX)
Minor opcode of failed request: 5 (X_GLXMakeCurrent)
Serial number of failed request: 26
Current serial number in output stream: 26

can you please help

[basithAA]

xcb connection still error and alsa lib still no such file directory hmm