

What you really want is to have the VM mount your local disks so that you can access your data directly as a mounted filesystem. The drawback of using a VM, rather than installing natively on your computer, is that it only comes with a few GBytes of free virtual disk space. Just be forewarned that if you break something, or introduce inconsistencies that render the software unusable, it will be your responsibility to fix it or re-download the entire VM. Unlike previous versions of OBSVM, the obsuser now has administrator privileges, so you can more fully customize the operating system.

If you don't know what that is, please contact us. The password is the same as the Carnegie Observatories VISITOR WiFi password.

Use the Observatory User (obsuser) account. Click the "System" tab at left and edit the resources you want to allow the VM to use.Ĭlick the "play" button and this will boot up the VM.
