West-Life Virtual Research Environment Docs
  • Introduction
  • Data Management
  • Virtual Folder
    • User's guide
      • Settings
        • Import settings from another Virtual Folder
      • File Manager
      • File Picker
      • Related applications
        • Jupyter notebook
      • Metadata
    • Installation guide
      • Cloud installation
      • Local installation
      • Integration with SSO
    • Integration guide
      • Select File or Dir from Virtual Folder
      • Working with WEBDAV
      • Embedding Virtual Folder Component
      • Adding component into Virtual Folder
    • Developer's guide
      • Backend
      • Frontend - Web Application
      • Metadata and API
        • Dataset metadata and API
        • File metadata and API
      • Import Export Settings API
      • Related application and services
      • Untitled
  • Virtual Machines and Containers
    • Preparing vagrant VM template
    • Preparing docker container
  • Repository
    • Installation guide
      • Prerequisites
      • Automatic installation
      • Manual installation from source codes
    • User's guide
      • Scientist imports project proposal
      • Staff uploads data
      • Scientist works with dataset
      • Metadata
    • Developer's guide
      • Metadata generation
      • ARIA integration
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Local installation

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Last updated 6 years ago

It's possible to test the virtual folder locally, there are these options:

  1. (requirements VirtualBox).

    Download the VM template for Open Nebula and import it into your private instance of VirtualBox.

  2. (requirements VirtualBox + Vagrant tool)

Using VM template for OpenNebula

Download the latest West-life VM in the OVA compatible format from

https://appdb.egi.eu/store/vappliance/d6.1.virtualfoldervm

Import the downloaded image into VirtualBox.

Using Vagrant tool and VirtualBox

You need Vagrant tool www.vagrantup.com and VirtualBox www.virtualbox.org. And use binary installation based on CernVM4 OS.

git clone https://github.com/h2020-westlife-eu/wp6-vm.git
cd wp6-vm/vf-standalone-bin/
vagrant up

For full options available for local installation, see Virtual Machines

The size of OVA image is very small (18 MB) as it contains only micro kernel of CernVM 4. It bootstraps the rest of operating system (based on Scientific Linux 7) and additional software from Internet. It may download about 100-200 MB during initial boot, and it can take about several minutes.

Desktop of VM is accessible via VirtualBox tool.