The subject VM is now on the BRL-CAD SF site (~1.7 Gb): http://sourceforge.net/projects/brlcad/files/BRL-CAD%20for%20Virtual%20Machines/
The intent of the VM is to give the GSoC interns a good starting place so they can be productive as soon as possible. Please give it a test drive so we can improve it before they start their work. You will need about 6 Gb free space on your computer (after the download) to import the VM into Oracle VirtualBox run it. The user name is "vuser" with a password of "Vuser!" (you should change the password upon first login). Don't forget to check out the Firefox browser links on the bookmarks toolbar as well as the folder icons on the desktop and the sub-directories in the home directory. Note that the "Downloads" directory can be removed but it tends to reappear if you download through Firefox and don't change its download defaults. The "brlcad-svn" has the brlcad/trunk current as of late yesterday and the brlcad-build directory has a configured and tested build followed by a "make clean" command. The "brlcad-config.sh" script is just a helper for repetitive configures and builds and it set to be called from inside the build directory: $ cd ~/brlcad-build ; ../brlcad_config.sh The successful trunk build (debug; with pdf extra docs) is installed in the default location. The PATH and MANPATH reflect that location, and Firefox has links to the installed BRL-CAD documentation. The latest CMake, Bullet Physics, and Apache FOP are installed, and the environment variable APACHE_FOP points to the fop executable. Editors vi, emacs, and jEdit are installed alongside the simple gedit. The ~/.bash-aliases file has some handy aliases for getting around: cad='cd ~/brlcad-svn' cabd='cd ~/brlcad-build' svu='svn update' svc='svn ci' svs='svn status' There are other aliases for safe versions of destructive commands (cp, rm, mv) and shortcuts for commonly-used commands and options. There is also a PERL5LIB environment variable set for the current directory: PERL5LIB=. Suggestions for change or additions are encouraged. Best regards, -Tom ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ BRL-CAD Developer mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/brlcad-devel
