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Once you have setup the Ubuntu VM on a host machine, you can setup the environment to work in two separate windows (shells) simultaneously, e.g., one set for the Freesurfer 6 environment and one set for the Freesurfer 7 environment. This can be useful for testing, running the tutorial data, etc. {{attachment:1_Ubuntu_VM_side_by_side.png}} |
FreeSurfer VitrualBox VM Host System Requirements
Summary of Requirements:
Tested running on hosts: Windows 10, Mac OS 10.15 with VirtualBox 6.X
Host RAM: 16GB RAM (~8 GB of free RAM apart from the RAM already in use by the host OS and its running applications.)
Host Graphics card: 3D graphics card with its own graphics memory & accelerated OpenGL drivers.
Host Disk Space: ~30G for compressed VM image, ~60G for uncompressed image.
Host: A working network connection.
Freesurfer Ubuntu 18 VM install and setup on Windows: WinHost_VM_setup.
Freesurfer Ubuntu 18 VM install and setup on Mac OS: MacHost_VM_setup.
Once you have setup the Ubuntu VM on a host machine, you can setup the environment to work in two separate windows (shells) simultaneously, e.g., one set for the Freesurfer 6 environment and one set for the Freesurfer 7 environment. This can be useful for testing, running the tutorial data, etc.
