Support for the USB-stick image and Virtual Machine Appliance for the OFW11
 

Greetings to all!

I'm starting this thread for the support of the USB-stick image and the Virtual Machine Appliance that have been created for the http://www.cfd-online.com/Forums/ope...-portugal.html

A complete wiki page with sub-pages has been created for detailing all of the steps taken for creating and deploying this image and is currently available here: http://openfoamwiki.net/index.php/In...tick_for_OFW11

The list of software made (and planned to be) available on these is listed on the chapter 2 "Software provided with the disk image(s)" of the User Guide that was written for this Workshop.

Now, it depends on which one you want to use:

1. If you want to write the USB-stick image in a real physical USB drive with at least 8GB of capacity, in which you are willing to delete everything you have inside that USB drive, then please follow these steps:
   1. Follow the instructions written here: http://openfoamwiki.net/index.php/In...to_a_new_stick - namely starting from the chapter 2 "Cloning the image to a new stick".
   2. Once you've successfully burned the image into a USB drive, follow the instructions given on the User Guide page: http://openfoamwiki.net/index.php/In...W11/User_Guide
2. If want to not risk having to go through a lengthy process of burning the image onto a USB drive, then you can instead use the Virtual Machine Appliance in VirtualBox, which should work on any 64-bit machine:
   1. Start reading the User Guide: http://openfoamwiki.net/index.php/In...W11/User_Guide
   2. When you reach the chapter 3 "Booting", choose the section 3.3 "Booting without USB-stick and with Virtual Machine Appliance".

Beyond this, please keep in mind that:

• If you have any problems with either one of these solutions, please let me/us know on this support thread you are currently reading ;)
• In addition, check the Frequently Asked Questions page, just in case you don't want to read the posts below, before asking your question.
• At the time of this writing, the image/VM version was v3 and will be updated (hopefully) at least once a month to sync up with the latest OpenFOAM 3.0.x and foam-extend 3.2-nextRelease changes, along with the addition a more software.

Best regards,
Bruno and the Local Organising Committee of the OFW11

is there any way to install this on an existing virtual box? I would like to demo the HELYX OS beta, and am having trouble installing the workshop files with enough hard drive space to make it useful.

-Danny

EDIT: I have solved this issue. Feel free to PM me if you need help

Quick answer: Sorry for the late reply. You could mount the USB stick image using a loop, it's just a matter of Googling for:
Then mount the squashed image file from the mounted drive like this:
Sorry for not providing more details sooner nor now, but I haven't managed to take a better look into this, since this mode of operation wasn't planned for the workshop :(