[Insight-users] ITK VirtualBox Virtual Appliance now Available.

[Oleksandr Dzyubak]

Hi Luis,

Nice work!
I would like to give it a try. How can I download this appliance?

Alex

Luis Ibanez wrote:
> Hi Alex,
>
> Creating a Virtual Appliance with a
> pre-installed ITK is a great suggestion !!
>
> ---
>
> Please find here
> an ITK-ready Virtual Appliance:
>
> http://midas.kitware.com/item/view/450
>
>
> It has:
>
> * Ubuntu 10.10 - 32 bits
> * ITK 3.18 installed as a package
> * CMake 2.8.2 installed as a package
> * ITK v4 (Git cloned) source code (in ~/src)
> * ITK v4 binary build (in ~/bin)
> * ITK Software Guide PDF (in ~/Desktop)
>
> username = itkuser
> password = insight
>
>
> An easy way to use it, is to install VirtualBox
> in your machine (Linux, Mac or  Windows)
> and then import the appliance.
>
>
> Please give it a try
> and let us know if you find any problem.
>
>
>       Thanks
>
>
>             Luis
>
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------
> On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 4:40 PM, Oleksandr Dzyubak <adzyubak at gmail.com 
> <mailto:adzyubak at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Dear ITK users,
>
>     I have a suggestion.
>     Nowadays virtuality  is quite common in the computer world and
>     many OSes (Linuces and Unices, at least ) come with native support
>     for both hosts and guests.
>     Just to mention Zen, VirtualBox, VMWare, etc (which is FOSS, BTW!)...
>
>     In such virtual environment, guest efficiency as good as 95% and up.
>     As a rule, host virtual software is multi-platform, so are guests.
>
>     All what we need is to create a virtual machine distributable disk
>     for beginners with ITK pre-installed and let them (beginners) use it.
>     That virtual machine could be in any virtual format (*.vmdk,
>     *.vdi, etc...)
>     since the ImportExport software is always available elsewhere.
>
>     Just to start, good candidates could be Linux-Debian with VirtualBox
>     as a host OS plus Linux-Debian (or its derivative Ubuntu) as a
>     guest OS.
>
>     Both Debian and Ubuntu already have the pre-compiled
>     ITK version in their repositories.
>
>     In this way the beginners could immediately start using ITK
>     without having such a painful headache with ITK installation.
>
>     Regards,
>
>     Alex
>
>
>