NAOqi OS on a virtual machine

Aldebaran Robotics provides an NAOqi OS virtual machine under the open standard OVF/OVA.

What the NAOqi OS virtual machine contains

The NAOqi OS virtual machine provides a virtualized NAO environment.

Thus, there is no graphical frontend, just a console.

It mainly targets developers and aims at fitting their needs.

It contains:

Developer tools	gcc compiler suite CMake qiBuild Autotools emerge and portage package tree Make easier building third-party libraries for Aldebaran robots.
Aldebaran material	libqi/libnaoqi
Miscellaneous	man pages

By default, binaries are built for i486 targets, but it is possible to enable the optimization for Atom targets (i.e. NAO V4). For further details, see: Optimizing builds for Atom targets.

Supported virtual machine software

All virtual machine software supporting OVF/OVA exchange format should be able to run the NAOqi OS virtual machine.

Supported virtual machine software:

• VirtualBox

Unsupported virtual machine software:

• Parallels (on Mac OS)
• VMware (without OVF-tools)

Note

This documentation has been done using VirtualBox.

To go further, see:

• Setting up the NAOqi OS virtual machine
• Using the NAOqi OS in a virtual machine
• Developing a project for NAO using third-party software