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   Satish,

    Since installing PETSc is so difficult how hard would it be 

1) provide an entire linux image with PETSc installed and user account already 
there that people can run in a VM on their machine?

2) allow people to log into a VM on a server with PETSc already installed and 
user account created for them automatically either
   
   a) on some machines we maintain or 
   b) on some Amazon/..../...   server system?

   Barry



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On Jan 8, 2014, at 9:43 AM, Jed Brown <[email protected]> wrote:

> Is this worth doing for PETSc?
> 
> 
> Resent-From: [email protected]
> From: Andy Ray Terrel <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [[email protected]] Vagrantfiles
> Date: January 7, 2014 at 6:10:21 PM CST
> To: [email protected]
> 
> 
> Yes! Vagrant is the new answer to, "How do I stall this on Windows?"
> It really is as simple as typing vagrant up and then vagrant ssh.
> 
> On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 4:51 PM, Jack Poulson <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Dear Elemental Developers,
>> 
>> I have finally taken the time to learn how to use Vagrant
>> [http://vagrantup.com] and have committed Vagrantfiles for developing
>> Elemental in (headless) 32-bit and 64-bit Ubuntu 13.10:
>> https://github.com/elemental/Elemental/commit/c809bdc9a240f6bdd5403f7c5e278d75415af66d
>> 
>> For those of you that aren't familiar with Vagrant, it is a means of
>> easily maintaining development environments for virtual machines. Once
>> Vagrant is installed, a full development environment for Elemental can
>> be started by simply typing 'vagrant up'.
>> 
>> I hope to add desktop versions, saucy32-desktop and saucy64-desktop,
>> soon so that a dev environment including Qt5 support can easily be
>> loaded. This would be the ideal setting for a quickstart tutorial. (Any
>> takers on helping write such a tutorial? It would obviously be one of
>> the most public-facing pieces of the project.) The complication is that
>> vagrant boxes need to be manually created (I'm in the process of
>> creating one for saucy32-desktop).
>> 
>> Jack
> 
> 

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