CentosWorkstation

How to make a Centos Workstation (VM/Real Machine)

Building the VM (Virtual Machine)

• Inside VirtualBox server, add users to vboxgroup (/etc/group), run VirtualBox, register product, create new virtual machine
  • Centos 5.3 Workstation
  • Linux, Red Hat 64-bit
  • 1.5GB RAM
  • Boot hard disk (Primary master)
    • Create new hard disk
      • Dynamically expanding storage
      • Location: /data/virtualbox/Centos.vdi
      • Size: 40.0 GB
• Further settings
  • Video: Enable 3D acceleration
  • CD/DVD-ROM: Mount Centos 5.3 DVD iso

Installing Centos

• Start VM
• Press Enter at Centos installation screen
• Skip media check
• Ignore colour mode message
• Centos Installation screen (GUI)
  • Language: English
  • US English
  • Click OK to erase all data on device hda
    • Hard disk
  • Create custom layout
  • hda 40955MB VBOX HARDDISK
  • Partitioning
    • /boot, ext3, 100MB, Fixed size, Force to be a primary partition
    • /, ext3, 18000MB, Fixed size, Force to be a primary partition
    • /usr, ext3, 18000MB, Fixed size, Force to be a primary partition
    • swap, 2048MB, Fixed size
    • /data, ext3, Fill to maximum allowable size
  • The Grub boot loader will be installed on /dev/hda
    • Default: CentOS /dev/hda2
  • Network
    • Active on boot, eth0, DHCP, Auto
  • Hostname:
    • Automatically via DHCP
  • Time
    • Australia/Brisbane time
    • System clock uses UTC
  • Root password
    • <standard workstation password>

• Centos 5.3 installation

Software

• pymol (Dirty hack). yum install pymol. As the one from sorbonne repository gives the python shared object in 32-bit, we need to rebuild it. This involves running, inside the pymol source, python setup.py build. Then, copying the libpymol.so built to /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/pymol/_cmd.so.