The Lab Windows VM and VirtualBox

The current Lab VM runs on Windows 7 and has an 80GB hard drive.

It comes with the following software:

Pymol

Marvin

Pipeline Pilot

Chimera

GraphPad Prism

Adobe Acrobat

Adobe Creative Suite

ChemDraw

End Note

Microsoft Office

How to Setup Your Windows VM:

Your VM is located in your home folder in a Directory called Vms, ie, /nfs/soft/desktop/Windows/instances/windows7/LabWindows.vdi.

To setup the VM open up VirtualBox and click on New.

You will then see this box:

Name: You can call it whatever you want.

Type: Choose Microsoft Windows.

Version: Windows 7 (64 bit)

Then click Next.

For the Memory size, you can make it whatever you want.

I usually select about 5000 MB.

Then click Next.

You will see a box that looks like this:

Select "Use an existing virtual hard drive file".

Then click the little folder icon to the right and navigate to and select: /nfs/soft/desktop/Windows/instances/windows7/LabWindows.vdi.

Then click Create.

Now to use your newly created machine, click on the Start arrow up at the top.

Your default login will be your user name on the cluster and your initial password will be emailed to you.

Once you've logged in please change your password.

To change your password:

Click the Start button in the bottom left hand corner.

Then click Control Panel => User Accounts and Family Safety => User Accounts => Your account => Change your password

If you want to attach your directories on nfs or your local directories to the VM (highly recommended):

Open VirtualBox (the vm must be powered off) and click on Machine => Settings => Shared Folders

You will see a little folder icon with a green plus sign on the right, click on that.

Then click on Folder Path and navigate to the directory you want to mount.

Once you've selected the folder, click on the Auto-mount button and then click ok.

If you see the following errors when you start your virtual machine:

Don't worry, it's a simple two minute fix. Please just ask one of the sysadmins to fix it.

VirtualBox SysAdmin Commands

VBoxManage --version: gets the version number of virtualbox