COPPELLIASIM with W11 or WSL2

[Ruben]

Hi everyone, I’m trying to use CoppeliaSim more smoothly on WSL2. I currently have Windows 11 with WSL2 based on Ubuntu 22.04. I’ve seen a few possible approaches but I can’t quite figure out how to set them up — could anyone help me out?

Specifically:

1. Is it possible to run CoppeliaSim directly on Windows 11 and connect it to WSL2? If so, how can I configure the communication between the two instances?


2. Alternatively, is there a way to make CoppeliaSim on WSL2 use my dedicated GPU? Has anyone already set this up or knows how to do it?

Another think, i'm using ROS2 with robot

If you have other working solutions, I’m open to suggestions. For completeness, I also mention that on Ubuntu 24 (dual boot) CoppeliaSim wasn’t working as smoothly as on Ubuntu 22 — do I need to set up something special there too?

Sorry for the long message but I’ve already spent too much time on this and right now the simulation is very slow. I’d rather not lose more time on setups that should already be working.

Thanks in advance to anyone who can help!

[coppelia]

Hello,

have a look at this post, in particular this link about installing GUI support on WSL.

Cheers

[Ruben]

Hello,

thank you for your reply.
Actually, my problem is not launching CoppeliaSim itself — CoppeliaSim runs correctly.
The issue is that I would like to use it by taking advantage of the GPU or the native Windows 11 version, because the one running on WSL2 is extremely slow and makes proper simulation almost impossible.

Do you have any suggestions on how I could achieve this?


Thanks!

[coppelia]

What do you see when you type:

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glxinfo | grep "OpenGL renderer"