CONSED AND PHAMERATOR VIRTUAL MACHINE INSTALLATION
1. Introduction
In order to run some of the software for phage genome annotation, you will need to install software that enables you to run a virtual machine on your Mac or Windows computer. There are several different vendors that provide software to support running virtual machines. The virtualization softwares that we currently support are:
•Oracle VirtualBox 4.2.4 (for both Mac OS X and Windows hosts, preferred)
•VMware Fusion (version 4.1 or later)(for Mac OS X Snow Leopard or Lion) (Commercial Software - Not Free)
•VMware Player (version 4.0 or later) (for Windows)
2. Minimum Hardware and Operating System Requirements
In order to run virtualization software on your machine, you need:
•Desktop/Laptop computer: A reasonably powerful computer with a 64-bit x86 CPU. Any recent computer (less than 3 or 4 years old) with an Intel or AMD processor should work.
•CPU Speed: We recommend that you have a 1 GHz or faster processor (2 GHz recommended).
•Memory: 1 GB RAM minimum (2 GB RAM recommended).
•Hard disk space: The SEA Virtual Machine that we have prepared for you uses 20 GB of disk space, so at minimum, you must have 20 GB or more, free disk space.
•Operating System: Mac OS X, Windows 7 or Windows XP.
3. Previous Installations of the Virtual Machine
If you do not have a previous installation of the virtual machine on your computer, move on to Section 4: Downloading and Installing the Virtualization Software.
It is prefectly acceptable to leave your old Virtual Machine from a previous year installed on your computer(s) in addition to installing the new Virtual Machine. This is appealing if you've gathered data in a previous VM and don't want to lost them.
Thus, you may choose to keep your old virtual machine while adding the new one, or delete it from your computer if disk space is an issue. If you want to delete a pervious version, follow your virtualization software's instructions for removing old virtual machines.
4. Download and Install the Virtualization Software
You may already have virtualization software installed on your computer. If so, make sure it's one of the programs mentioned in the above Section 1. Introduction, then proceed to Section 5: Download the SEA Linux Virtual Machine.
If you do not have virtualization software installed already, you'll need to download and install one of the following porgrams. We strongly recommend you use VirtualBox, which runs on and is free for both Mac and PC.
If you are running Mac OS X, follow instructions to:
•Download and Install Oracle VirtualBox 4.2.4 on Mac OS X. OR
•Download and Install VMware Fusion on Mac OS X
If you are running Windows 7 or Windows XP, follow instructions to:
•Download and Install Oracle VirtualBox 4.2.4 on Windows 7 / XP. OR
•Download and Install VMware Player on Windows 7 / XP.
5. Download the SEA Linux Virtual Machine
VirtualBox and VMware use different file types to store the contents of virtual machines.VirtualBox stores its virtual machines in a file with a .vdi extension, whereas VMware stores its virtual machines in a file with a .vmdk extension.
Take note of where you saved the downloaded file(s). You will need to locate these file(s) in order to complete the next step.
6. Setup the SEA Linux Virtual Machine for your Virtualization Software
Oracle VirtualBox and VMware Player also have different methods to setup the virtual machine.
If you are running Mac OS X, follow instructions to:
•Setup the 2013 SEA VM on Mac OS X with Oracle VirtualBox 4.2.4. OR
•Setup the 2013 SEA VM on Mac OS X with VMware Fusion.
If you are running Windows 7 or Windows XP, follow instructions to:
•Setup the 2013 SEA VM on Windows 7 / XP with Oracle VirtualBox 4.2.4. OR
•Setup the 2013 SEA VM on Windows 7 / XP with VMware Player.
7. Login to the SEA Linux Virtual Machine
The username and [password] are:
sea-student [phamerator]