The guide will walk you through the steps necessary to build a clean virtual environment for OCW work.
The login information for the VM is always username: vagrant, password: vagrant.
Requirements
You need to have Vagrant and one of Vagrant's supported virtual machine providers installed first. This guide (much like Vagrant's default guide) will assume that you're using VirtualBox.
Building
To start the VM build, change to the ocw-vm directory and run vagrant up.
cd $OCW_HOME/ocw-vm vagrant up
Vagrant will now build your VM and provide you with a simple GUI. Login using the usual credentials (username: vagrant, login: vagrant) and install the necessary dependencies. After you log in you will need to copy the dependency installation file from /vagrant to your home directory and start the installation.
cp /vagrant/init-ocw-vm.sh . ./init-ocw-vm.sh
This process can take a while depending on the quality of your internet connection. Be patient, it will get there eventually.
Help VM GUI TIps
When you're in the VM's GUI window you find that you're unable to use your mouse on our main desktop. To "escape" your mouse from the VM window press Left-Cmd (OS X) or Left-Ctrl (Windows/Linux). If your keybindings are different you may need to check the settings for additional information. Similarly, if the VM windows goes to sleep, you can wake it up by putting the window into focus and pressing the Escape key.
About half way through the installation you will be prompted for input. The VM build relies on the Continuum Analytics Anaconda Python distribution which requires you to agree to their license and provide some minor configuration parameters.
You should answer yes to their license and use the default answers for the other prompts. After the install is complete, you will be prompted to add the new Anaconda path to your shell's configuration file. Answer yes to this as well. This step is important! If you forget to do this your build will not be able to find the Python dependencies that you installed!
After the installation has finished, restart the VM by going to the terminal where you ran vagrant up and run vagrant halt. We need to restart the VM so the GUI that we installed will kick in. Restart it by running vagrant up again.
vagrant halt # Wait for the VM to shutdown vagrant up
You should now be greeted with a splash screen asking you to log in. Select the vagrant user and log in with vagrant as the password.
Note, if your login simply redirects you back to the login page, click the small Ubuntu icon by the username and select the Xfce Session.
When prompted, select to use the Default Config
Congratulations. The VM is now configured!
Testing the Build
Open a Terminal by clicking Applications Menu > Terminal Emulator. Then run the following:
cd climate/examples python simple_model_to_model_bias.py
Once the evaluation finished, you should find a .png in the examples directory if everything ran successfully.
Exporting the Virtual Machine from VirtualBox
Ensure that the VM is shutdown by running vagrant halt or closing the GUI and selecting the Shut Down option.
Open VirtualBox. You should see a VM with a name similar to ocw-vm_default_1400605262050_94035. You can rename in the settings for the VM.
Delete the default shared folder by Right Clicking the VM > Settings > Shared Folders > Select the vagrant folder and select the delete icon (red minus sign on a folder)
From VirtualBoxes settings, select the Export Appliance. Select the VM and click Continue. Select somewhere to save it and click Continue, then click Export.
Once this is done, your VM is ready!