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FreeSurfer VitrualBox VM Image
System Requirements:
Tested running on hosts: Windows 10, Mac OS 11.6 (Intel Mac) with VirtualBox 6.1.30.
12-16 GB of free RAM for the VM apart from the RAM already in use by the host OS and running applications.
Host Graphics card: 3D graphics card with its own graphics memory & accelerated OpenGL drivers.
Host Disk Space: ~9G for virtual image download (compressed *.ova file), ~30G for expanded VM image.
Host: A working network connection.
Suggested User Background:
Some familiarity with downloading files through a browser, e.g., firefox, or using commands such as wget, curl from the linux terminal.
Some familiarity with the linux terminal running bash shell including removing, copying, editing files and setting/unsetting environment variables.
Some familiarity with simple bash commands/scripting as found in the shell initialization file.
1st time install of VirtualBox on Windows OS: WinHost_VM_setup.
1st time install of VirtualBox on Mac OS: MacHost_VM_setup.
Once the VM starts and you have added you Freesurfer license file, you can start a terminal and it should come up with the environment set to run the current 7.2.0 release.
