Download StarHPC Virtual Machine Image

Download the StarHPC standalone virtual machine using the link below. This is a large download (1.5GB) and will take a long time on a slow connection. Below the download link is the username/password you'll need to login to the virtual machine once you've installed vmware player and have run the image as described below.

• Download StarHPC Standalone Virtual Machine
  
• Username: mpiuser
  Password: starhpc08

Extracting the Standalone Virtual Machine Image

Once the image has been downloaded untar the file to a preferred location on your hard disk. Below are brief instructions on how to do this for each platform.

Windows

On windows you can use winrar to extract the files from starhpc-standalone-vm-2008.tar.gz.

1. Open winrar and go to File→Open Archive
2. Select the starhpc-standalone-vm-2008.tar.gz file downloaded from above.
3. You should now see a folder called “starhpc” in the explorer window.
4. Select the starhpc folder and click the “Extract To” icon below the file menu.
5. Fill in c:\ for the destination path and click “OK”
6. You now have a c:\starhpc folder which contains the virtual machine files.

Mac/Linux

1. Open a terminal and change directory to where you downloaded the starhpc-standalone-vm-2008.tar.gz file above.
   cd /where/you/downloaded/the/file
2. Next run:
   tar xvzf starhpc-standalone-vm-2008.tar.gz -C $HOME
3. This will create a folder in your home folder called starhpc with the virtual machine files in it.

Installing VMWare Player

DISCLAIMER: The instructions below are meant to be a quickstart guide to installing vmware player and aren't officially supported. Please consult vmware's documentation foundhereand the documentation for yourOSif you need further assistance installing vmware player.

Below are general instructions for installing vmware player for windows, mac, and linux platforms.

Windows

Ubuntu/Debian

1. Install the headers for your kernel and the build-essential package (for compilation) by running the following in a terminal as root:
   aptitude install build-essential linux-headers-`uname -r`
2. Download the vmware-player tar.gz file from here.
3. Untar the package by running in a terminal: he build-essential package (for compilation) by running the following in a terminal as root:
   tar zxpf VMware-<xxxx>.tar.gz
   (where xxxx is a build number on the file downloaded in the first step)
4. Change directory to the extracted folder:
   cd vmware-player-distrib
5. Run, as root:
   ./vmware-install.pl
6. Accept all the defaults by pressing enter
7. Say “yes” when asked to run vmware-config.pl
8. Accept all defaults by pressing enter in the vmware-config.pl script
9. Start vmware-player by running in a non-root terminal:
   vmplayer

Gentoo

ArchLinux

Please follow the instructions on the Arch Linux wiki to install vmware-player:

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Installing_vmware_player

Starting the StarHPC Virtual Machine

1. Go to File → Open
2. Click "Browse" and navigate to the location to which you extracted the Virtual Machine image
3. Select the starhpc.vmx file, press “OK”, and then “OK” again
4. There should now be a “starhpc” tab in VMWare player. Within that tab click “Power on this virtual machine” to boot the StarHPC virtual machine image.