Yambo Virtual Machine

Virtual Box Download and Installation Instructions

VirtualBox is a software to run a ('virtualized') operating system as a client of a host operating system. The host operating system is what you boot your computer into. The client operating system (called a 'virtual machine', or a 'software appliance') has been prepared by us specifically for this School.

Download and Install VirtualBox Software

Go to Virtualbox Home and click on the big button to download the latest Version, select your host system on the next page and start the download of the package.

For Windows users the download provides an `.exe` file that can be started by double-clicking on its icon
For Mac users the download provides a disk image `.dmg` file that also can be started by double-clicking
For Linux users more choices are available, depending on distribution. There is also the option to use a repository for Debian-based Linux distributions.

This should be all. If something goes wrong, try to reboot your host and try to re-install on the freshly booted machine. (In the past, it was often found (at least on MacOSX) that upgrades of VirtualBox do not work when having run VirtualBox clients before.)

Download and Install the Virtual Machine

Download the virtual machine image clicking on the following link

Note that this image has a large size of 5-7 GBytes. Don't attempt to download it from a poor wireless connection. Having downloaded the VM Image, it needs to be imported into VirtualBox.

Start VirtualBox
Goto Menu Item "File", then "Import Appliance" (File->Import Appliance)
In the topmost field, type in the name of the downloaded Appliance File or search for it via the finder that opens when clicking the button to the right.