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Here are some tips for setting up your VM that should make your life easier.

From the "Oracle VM VirtualBox Manager" menu, select the cme212-ubuntu-vm in the RHS panel, and then open the "Settings" menu.

  1. Under "General" >> "Advanced" >> "Shared clipboard" select Bidirectional. This will allow you to copy/paste content between the VM and your local computer.
  2. Under "System" >> "Motherboard" >> "Base Memory" you might want to consider increasing the memory.  This could improve some of the latency issues.
  3. Under "Display" >> "Screen" >> "Video Memory", again consider increasing the memory to improve latency.
  4. If you want to share a folder between your local computer and the VM:

    • "Shared Folder" >> + Folder icon 

      • Folder path: Local path to folder, e.g. /Users/jesswetstone/
      • Folder name: Name of local folder, e.g. cme212-jhwetstone
      • Select Auto-mount
      • Mount point: Name of folder on VM, e.g. cme212-jhwetstone
      • Select Make Permanent

    • Save settings and log on to the VM. In a terminal window, type:

      sudo usermod -aG vboxsf $USER

    • Log off and log back on.  Under "Files" on the VM, you should have access to the shared folder /media/sf_[Mount point]

  5. If you would like to use the Sublime text editor on the VM: http://tipsonubuntu.com/2017/05/30/install-sublime-text-3-ubuntu-16-04-official-way/

Note: If you are able to run code locally, you should probably be OK to develop locally for most of the classwork this quarter.  We recommend having a working VM configured for testing purposes and if for some reason later on in the course your code won't compile locally.