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I am running ARGoS on a Linux virutal machine. I think it's a bit slow. Is it because of the virtual machine or is it natural?

It's because of the virtual machine. Which VM are you using? Did you install the native extensions?

I am using VirtualBox. I did not install anything other than the app itself.

You should at least install the guest additions, which allow you to activate 3D acceleration.

Beware that VirtualBox has issues with Linux guests and 3D acceleration, especially with programs based on Qt (such as ARGoS). I strongly suggest you to switch to a different virtualization environment, such as VMWare.

You're right. Virtualbox was not working good.
I switched to Vmware, as you suggested. Thank you.

It's unrelated to the topic, but I am getting the following error when running an experiment:

The compilation was OK and there was no error. I checked, there is a "libargos3core_simulator.so" file in build/core directory.

How did you install ARGoS? Which commands? If you installed ARGoS from the sources, please don't - use the binaries instead. If you had a reason to install from the sources, try running 'sudo ldconfig' to see if this fixes the issue.

The problem was lack of GALIB library. After installation of GALIB, Everything is OK now.

The speed is very good with Vmware.

ARGoS is much faster when run natively. If you have the possibility, consider dual-booting.