VMWare Virtual Appliance of Ubuntu with numpy, scipy, matplotlib, and ipython available
This is a note to announce the availability of a VMWare Virtual Appliance with Ubuntu linux with numpy, scipy, matplotlib, and ipython installed. This should make it relatively easy to try out the software. The VMWare Player and VMWare Server are available for no cost from http://www.vmware.com/products/player/ and http://www.vmware.com/products/server/ The download URL is: http://mosca.caltech.edu/outgoing/Ubuntu%207.04%20for%20scientific%20computi... The username is "ubuntu" and the password is "abc123". The network will share the host's interface using NAT. The md5sum is 4191e13abda1154c94e685ffdc0f829b. I have updated http://scipy.org/Download with this information.
For those who are not aware, I have just discovered that the graphics performance of VMWare Player is *MUCH* better than that of VMWare Server. The latter is apparently optimized for disconnected headless operation and access via a network, and so it uses some heavyweight remote protocol for all graphics, while the former is optimized for local, interactive use and basic desktop graphics are quite zippy. On the other hand, VMWare Tools doesn't seem to be available under Player. Fortunately, Player seems to be able to work with VMWare Tools that were installed under Server. Unfortunately Server and Player can't both be installed at the same time. And Player can't create new VM's. So maybe the best bet is to install Server first, create any new VMs you want to create, set them up with the VMWare Tools, then switch to VMWare Player to get the improved graphics performance. VMWare Player can use the vm's created by Server just fine. --bb On 6/10/07, Andrew Straw <strawman@astraw.com> wrote:
This is a note to announce the availability of a VMWare Virtual Appliance with Ubuntu linux with numpy, scipy, matplotlib, and ipython installed.
This should make it relatively easy to try out the software. The VMWare Player and VMWare Server are available for no cost from http://www.vmware.com/products/player/ and http://www.vmware.com/products/server/
The download URL is: http://mosca.caltech.edu/outgoing/Ubuntu%207.04%20for%20scientific%20computi...
The username is "ubuntu" and the password is "abc123". The network will share the host's interface using NAT. The md5sum is 4191e13abda1154c94e685ffdc0f829b.
I have updated http://scipy.org/Download with this information.
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I run VMWare Player and it works fine - easy to setup and easy to setup a Matlab replacement. I only wonder how to transfer files between the Windows XP and the Ubuntu VM? Thanks, Alex On Jun 10, 9:27 pm, "Bill Baxter" <wbax...@gmail.com> wrote:
For those who are not aware, I have just discovered that the graphics performance of VMWare Player is *MUCH* better than that of VMWare Server. The latter is apparently optimized for disconnected headless operation and access via a network, and so it uses some heavyweight remote protocol for all graphics, while the former is optimized for local, interactive use and basic desktop graphics are quite zippy.
On the other hand, VMWare Tools doesn't seem to be available under Player. Fortunately, Player seems to be able to work with VMWare Tools that were installed under Server.
Unfortunately Server and Player can't both be installed at the same time. And Player can't create new VM's. So maybe the best bet is to install Server first, create any new VMs you want to create, set them up with the VMWare Tools, then switch to VMWare Player to get the improved graphics performance. VMWare Player can use the vm's created by Server just fine.
--bb
On 6/10/07, Andrew Straw <straw...@astraw.com> wrote:
This is a note to announce the availability of a VMWare Virtual Appliance with Ubuntu linux with numpy, scipy, matplotlib, and ipython installed.
This should make it relatively easy to try out the software. The VMWare Player and VMWare Server are available for no cost from http://www.vmware.com/products/player/and http://www.vmware.com/products/server/
The download URL is: http://mosca.caltech.edu/outgoing/Ubuntu%207.04%20for%20scientific%20...
The username is "ubuntu" and the password is "abc123". The network will share the host's interface using NAT. The md5sum is 4191e13abda1154c94e685ffdc0f829b.
I have updatedhttp://scipy.org/Downloadwith this information.
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Alex schrieb:
I run VMWare Player and it works fine - easy to setup and easy to setup a Matlab replacement. I only wonder how to transfer files between the Windows XP and the Ubuntu VM?
Apart from using usb sticks (AFAIK VMware still has issues with usb 2.0 though) I think the experts usually call a samba or ftp server on the linux side the cleanest solution. The ultimate thing in terms of user friendliness would be if the numpy virtual appliance already had that pre-configured! And now let the experts step forward to announce better and easier solutions... -sven
On 6/11/07, Sven Schreiber <svetosch@gmx.net> wrote:
Alex schrieb:
I run VMWare Player and it works fine - easy to setup and easy to setup a Matlab replacement. I only wonder how to transfer files between the Windows XP and the Ubuntu VM?
Apart from using usb sticks (AFAIK VMware still has issues with usb 2.0 though) I think the experts usually call a samba or ftp server on the linux side the cleanest solution. The ultimate thing in terms of user friendliness would be if the numpy virtual appliance already had that pre-configured!
And now let the experts step forward to announce better and easier solutions...
Does *ntfs*-3g work for Ubuntu running on VMware Player? Chuck
I was able to share some folders in Windows and then browse to those shared folders from the VMware guest Ubuntu OS. I think there is some default samba stuff already running looking for shared folders. I think I had to set something in the VMware player to say that I trusted the guest OS to allow it to modified my files. It was pretty straight forward (but I am not sitting in front of that computer right now and it isn't booted in Windows right now either, so I can't check the exact details). Ryan On 6/11/07, Sven Schreiber <svetosch@gmx.net> wrote:
Alex schrieb:
I run VMWare Player and it works fine - easy to setup and easy to setup a Matlab replacement. I only wonder how to transfer files between the Windows XP and the Ubuntu VM?
Apart from using usb sticks (AFAIK VMware still has issues with usb 2.0 though) I think the experts usually call a samba or ftp server on the linux side the cleanest solution. The ultimate thing in terms of user friendliness would be if the numpy virtual appliance already had that pre-configured!
And now let the experts step forward to announce better and easier solutions...
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The SMB *client* is installed by default in ubuntu. You have to add the smb server separately using apt-get or the synaptic package manager. sudo apt-get install samba After you install the smb server, go to System->Administration->Shared Folders and add a shared folder. Then from a console run sudo smbpasswd -a <yourloginhere> and after that restart samba sudo /etc/init.d/samba restart At least that's what worked for me. I find it a lot easier to be able to do the sharing/copying from the Windows side using Explorer than the ubuntu side using the Gnome file thing. But YMMV. It's nice to have both pathways set up. On 6/12/07, Ryan Krauss <ryanlists@gmail.com> wrote:
I was able to share some folders in Windows and then browse to those shared folders from the VMware guest Ubuntu OS. I think there is some default samba stuff already running looking for shared folders. I think I had to set something in the VMware player to say that I trusted the guest OS to allow it to modified my files. It was pretty straight forward (but I am not sitting in front of that computer right now and it isn't booted in Windows right now either, so I can't check the exact details).
Ryan
On 6/11/07, Sven Schreiber <svetosch@gmx.net> wrote:
Alex schrieb:
I run VMWare Player and it works fine - easy to setup and easy to setup a Matlab replacement. I only wonder how to transfer files between the Windows XP and the Ubuntu VM?
Apart from using usb sticks (AFAIK VMware still has issues with usb 2.0 though) I think the experts usually call a samba or ftp server on the linux side the cleanest solution. The ultimate thing in terms of user friendliness would be if the numpy virtual appliance already had that pre-configured!
And now let the experts step forward to announce better and easier solutions...
-sven _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discussion@scipy.org http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
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The instructions here are clear and easy to follow: http://www.spywareinfo.com/articles/vmware/basharing.php Hence, I was able to install the ftp server on Ubuntu and exchange my files in real-time in Windows. I use vsftpd on Ubuntu and Wincp on Windows. best Alex On Jun 11, 7:18 pm, "Bill Baxter" <wbax...@gmail.com> wrote:
The SMB *client* is installed by default in ubuntu. You have to add the smb server separately using apt-get or the synaptic package manager. sudo apt-get install samba After you install the smb server, go to System->Administration->Shared Folders and add a shared folder. Then from a console run sudo smbpasswd -a <yourloginhere> and after that restart samba sudo /etc/init.d/samba restart
At least that's what worked for me. I find it a lot easier to be able to do the sharing/copying from the Windows side using Explorer than the ubuntu side using the Gnome file thing. But YMMV. It's nice to have both pathways set up.
On 6/12/07, Ryan Krauss <ryanli...@gmail.com> wrote:
I was able to share some folders in Windows and then browse to those shared folders from the VMware guest Ubuntu OS. I think there is some default samba stuff already running looking for shared folders. I think I had to set something in the VMware player to say that I trusted the guest OS to allow it to modified my files. It was pretty straight forward (but I am not sitting in front of that computer right now and it isn't booted in Windows right now either, so I can't check the exact details).
Ryan
On 6/11/07, Sven Schreiber <sveto...@gmx.net> wrote:
Alex schrieb:
I run VMWare Player and it works fine - easy to setup and easy to setup a Matlab replacement. I only wonder how to transfer files between the Windows XP and the Ubuntu VM?
Apart from using usb sticks (AFAIK VMware still has issues with usb 2.0 though) I think the experts usually call a samba or ftp server on the linux side the cleanest solution. The ultimate thing in terms of user friendliness would be if the numpy virtual appliance already had that pre-configured!
And now let the experts step forward to announce better and easier solutions...
-sven _______________________________________________ Numpy-discussion mailing list Numpy-discuss...@scipy.org http://projects.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/numpy-discussion
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Hello all ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew Straw" <strawman@astraw.com> To: "Discussion of Numerical Python" <numpy-discussion@scipy.org> Sent: Saturday, June 09, 2007 9:09 PM Subject: [Numpy-discussion] VMWare Virtual Appliance of Ubuntu with numpy, scipy, matplotlib, and ipython available
This is a note to announce the availability of a VMWare Virtual Appliance with Ubuntu linux with numpy, scipy, matplotlib, and ipython installed.
I'm assuming you ran the test suites and everything went fine? I've set up a 32-bit Windows XP guest inside VMWare Server 1.0.3 on a 64-bit Linux machine and two of the NumPy tests are segfaulting for some strange reason. They are: numpy.core.tests.test_defmatrix.test_casting.check_basic numpy.core.tests.test_numeric.test_dot.check_matmat Do these pass for you? I'm inclined to blame VMWare at this point... Cheers, Albert
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