Participant's computer pre-requisites
Practice session material will be installed on a virtual machine to get ready on site. The virtual machine requires that you install virtualbox on your machine.
- please visit https://www.virtualbox.org/ to download and install the software on your machine
- please verify that you have enough available disk space (~ 20GB)
The setup and installation of the dedicated virtual machine image will be proceed on Roscoff through following steps:
- Please check that you've got enough disk size (~ 20GB). Your PC must have at least 8Gb of RAM. Your PC must have the VT-x option activated in the BIOS
- Extract files on a temporary directory on your hardrive
- Run virtualbox and launch FIle->Import a virtual device / Fichier->Importer un appareil virtuel
- Select the OVF file you have downloaded from the temporary directory
- Check/validate and apply next for given settings. The import may take a few minutes, just be patient.
- Double click on the new machine icon
- If you lock the screen the account is ees17 with roscoff password
- You can delete the temporary directory of downloaded files
- Don't forget to check remove associated file checkbox if you remove the virtual machine
- Virtualbox requires the setting of virtualization on your CPU
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- most recent machines have this setup on
- Tips: You can enable copy/paste between your machine and hosted VM : look at Device/Clipboard menu (Périphériques/Presse-papier)
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- old virtualbox 4.XXX on mac do not support screen resizing
