Local Virutal Machine

If you plan to do software development when "on-the-road", and really have no remote access to the lab's servers, you can install a virtual machine on your personal machine.

A preconfigured image called "ubuntu-cvlab.ova" is available under "/cvlabdata1", which is mounted on all servers by default.

This image is similar in terms of software resources as the lab's servers, including a compiled version of ITK.

To set it up, download and install Virtualbox from their website, and also download the "ubuntu-cvlab.ova" file to your personal computer.

Launch Virtualbox, and create a new virtual machine, allocating CPU and RAM based on your computer hardware resources (use the recommended values when in doubt).

When configuring the hard disk, choose to use an existing disk, and select the file "ubuntu-cvlab.ova".

You can now start the virtual machine.

The username is "cvlab", and the password "cvlab".

The "cvlab" account has all privileges via the "sudo" command.

Many thanks to Pol Monso Purti for preparing that image.