--- Begin Message ---Satish, Since installing PETSc is so difficult how hard would it be1) 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 > >
