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Specs and related decisions
Question or issue | Installer and support "owner" | Answer or decision | Factors and notes |
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OS: Is 64-bit Windows OK? Or, is the 32-bit OS necessary? | ChemIT | From John: If that makes the most sense to you, lets proceed forward with 64 bit, then. I would suspect that at this point, the likelihood of anyone showing up with a 32 bit OS should be pretty low. ChemIT: Unless otherwise requested, will install 64-bit app when available. |
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App: Keep MS Office? | N/A | From John: Definitely no MS Office. | If were to keep, VM container size goes up! |
App: What version of MATLAB? What MATLAB "toolkits" to include/ exclude? | ChemIT | From John: Matlab 2014b with Parallel computing toolbox. Re: 64-bit version of MATLAB, John says: (64-bit) Matlab sounds fine, though obviously we will have to test the software packages that the demonstrators will be providing. |
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App: LabVIEW Run-Time Engine | John | From John: For labview, we definitely want the 32 bit. The author of the software in question says, "*Even if your OS is 64bit, all programs require the _standard 32 bit LabVIEW Runtime engine_*," |
(Do not use, "LabVIEW Run-Time Engine 2014 - (64-bit) - Windows - Windows 8 64-bit/7 64-bit/Vista 64-bit/Server 2008 R2 64-bit") |
App: Python(x,y), from Google Code | John | From John: Python(x,y) from google code. | https://code.google.com/p/pythonxy/wiki/Downloads |
OS config: Is networking from within the VM strictly necessary from the image? | ChemIT | From John: If possible, I would like to start setting up the VM with networking enabled, and strip it out later, if that's possible. Why?
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OS config: Do deployed VMs need to have full Admin rights? | N/A, if left as full Admin for any user? | ChemIT: Consider just having account auto-log into full Admin account, with simple p/w. Easiest to de-bug and is the most flexible for user, and safe and robust enough since this VM is not a production container. But note ChemIT's concerns to the right, elaborate further in the Concerns section, below. From John: I don't see a particular need for admin rights, though since it's just a VM, it might not hurt.From ChemIT: See our concerns to the right, elaborate further in the Concerns section, below. |
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- Does it run fine on both Mac and a Windows computers?
- Try at least one of each.
- Does networking work as expected?
- Is the NAT configuration best?
- Is RAM for the VM configured on launch, or is it hardwired in? What is min. RAM which will work? (2 GB?) And how much RAM will participant's laptop need, total?
- Try on a verity of PC laptops
- Does a "snapshot" work the way Oliver hopes it does?
- Create a (large) base. Then see if (smaller) diff can be added to it, at the destination laptop. (Rather than technique just facilitating creating an updated (but single and large) image.)
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