Add and enable roscore service by default

assets/services/roscore.service

@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+[Unit]
+Description=Launcher for the ROS master, parameter server and rosout logging node
+
+[Service]
+User=clever
+ExecStart=/bin/sh -c ". /opt/ros/melodic/setup.sh; ROS_HOSTNAME=`hostname`.local exec roscore"
+Restart=on-failure
+RestartSec=3
+
+[Install]
+WantedBy=multi-user.target

ros_ide_vm.json

@@ -47,6 +47,11 @@
     "source": "{{user `assetsDir`}}/desktop/",
     "destination": "/home/clever/Desktop"
   },
+  {
+    "type": "file",
+    "source": "{{user `assetsDir`}}/services/",
+    "destination": "/etc/systemd/system"
+  },
   {
     "type": "shell",
     "script": "scripts/installSoftware.sh",

scripts/installSoftware.sh

@@ -70,6 +70,9 @@ source /opt/ros/melodic/setup.bash
 cd ${HOME}/catkin_ws && catkin_make
 echo "source /home/clever/catkin_ws/devel/setup.bash" >> ~/.bashrc
 
+echo "--- Enabling roscore service"
+sudo systemctl enable roscore.service
+
 echo "--- Installing QGroundControl"
 echo "${PASSWORD}" | sudo -E -S sh -c "usermod -a -G dialout $USER"
 echo "${PASSWORD}" | sudo -E -S sh -c 'apt remove -y modemmanager; apt install -y gstreamer1.0-plugins-bad gstreamer1.0-libav'