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== Fedora 14 Virtual Box Installation on Mac OS X 10.9 ==
* Set up for the SCEC CME Configuration:
== Virtual Box Software ==
* Install VB v4.3.18

== Download Fedora 14 ==
* While current Fedora is v20, some VB features like guest additions work best on older versions of fedora
** Machine name: scecbbp
** Machine type: Linux - Fedora (64Bit)
*Use the Default System except:
** Set Base Memory to 2048MB
** Set FileSystem type VDI
** set dynamically allocated
** Size: 71.31GB dynamic (does not need to be exactly this value)
* After machine is created, select "Settings", "Display"
** Increase video memory to 32MB
* Define a shared folder location on host system
** Select a folder on host system called "share"
* Download "Fedora-14-x86_64-DVD.iso" onto Mac hard drive
** Load it into VB
** Select the "Fedora 14 iso image downloaded above", and then click "OK"
* Boot (Start) the new machine and the Fedora 14 installation will begin
** Select "install a new system or upgrade..."
* Skip the media test
* When warning dialog asking about re-initializing device pops-up, select "Re-Initialize All"
* Machine name: "scecbbp"
* Select "Los Angeles" time zone
* Root password set to: "scecbbp2014"
* Installation type: "Use all space"
** Select the review and Customize box at the bottom of page
** Delete the /home partition and make the / partition larger to use the space used by /home. Set it to Max size shown on screen
*When it prompts for software to install
** Select Customize Now
** Edit source (from http to DVD)
** Select "Software Development" and
**add "Fedora 14 - x86_64" and "Fedora 14 - x86_64 Updates"
** to add these, modify repository by changing url from https to http
* Actual installation begins...
* After machine reboots...
* User setup
** Username: scecbbp
** Fullname: Broadband Platform
** Password: sceccme
** advanced settings and added this users to the wheel group
* Installation ends!
* Open terminal window
* Set up sudo access for user cme
** su - (to become root)
** visudo
**Find the line that says
**ROOT ALL=(ALL) ALL
**under that line add the line
*** Add line at the end: "scecbbp ALL=(ALL) ALL"
*Error on sudo yum install
** edit /etc/yum.repo.d/ files. Comment in the base url, and remove https and add http for mirrors.
** This changes seems related to where image is originally loaded from, and this was needed
** to get it to work from mac disk image.
** edit /etc/yum.repos.d files to comment in baseurl and change https to http for mirror sites
* Install missing Python dependencies for BBP and UCVM
**sudo yum install numpy scipy python-matplotlib python-basemap
* Disable the sendmail daemon
** sudo chkconfig sendmail off
** Install Pyproj
** Download Pyproj from https://pyproj.googlecode.com/files/pyproj-1.8.9.tar.gz
** untar, then run "sudo python ./setup.py install"
* Install the Virtual Box guest additions (from http://www.sysprobs.com/install-fedora-15-virtualbox-steps-install-virtualbox-guest-additions-fedora-15)
** sudo yum install dkms
** Select "Devices" -> "Insert Guest Additions CD image..."
** sudo su -
** cd /media/VBOXADDITIONS_<VERSION_NUMBER>
** sh ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run
** Reboot!

* Setting up a shared folder on the virtual machine
** https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?t=15868
** edit /etc/rc.local to automount
**mount -t vboxsf share /home/<username>/host

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