Virtual Box with KLayout and Lumerical tools

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Lumerical is not supporting Mac OSX. The alternative is to run a virtual machine, install Linux, then all the design tools.

Here are my notes on how to do this. Others' experiences are welcome to be documented here.

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• Download and install Virtual Box: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads
• Download CentOS 8: http://isoredirect.centos.org/centos/8-stream/isos/x86_64/, choose the ISO, then DVD file (several GB)
• Install new machine - instructions here https://linuxhint.com/install_centos8_virtualbox/
  • start Virtual Box
  • create a new machine
    • Name: CentOS 8 Lumerical KLayout
    • Version: Red Hat (64-bit)
    • Memory: 4096
    • Create Virtual Disk, VDI, Dynamic, Size = 32 GB
  • settings
    • Storage: Controller IDE: Empty: click on CD, then choose disk file (ISO)
  • boot the machine and install the OS

... tried this, but KLayout didn't run with this version...

CentOS 7 works.