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1. Go to [https://onify.it.helsinki.fi/](https://onify.it.helsinki.fi/) and select `Order a virtual desktop`.
2. Select `Basic Linux`.
3. To get proper resources and an external disk that is required for the environment setup, the university's helpdesk needs to be emailed about it. The MOOC-center has an email thread regarding this, so you can ask in the Rage Research-slack's #secret-project-331 channel for help to email to that thread to get the resources for your virtual desktop.
3. Put your university username as the name for the virtual desktop.
4. Ask for the WBS number from redande or hn in slack.
5. To get proper resources and an external disk that is required for the environment setup, the university's helpdesk needs to be emailed about it. The MOOC-center has an email thread regarding this, so you can ask redande or hn in slack to email to that thread to get the resources for your virtual desktop.

## Install and set up VMware Horizon Client

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3. Open VMware Horizon Client.
4. Double click the `New Server`-button.
5. Enter your university credentials. The dropdown below the credentials-fields should default to `ATKK`, but if it's something else, switch it to `ATKK`.
6. Select your virtual desktop, probably named `vdi-<your university username>` or `mooc-<your university username>`.
6. Select your virtual desktop, it should be `vdi-<your university username>`.

**NB!** You can also access the virtual desktop at [vdi.helsinki.fi](https://vdi.helsinki.fi) without installing the VMware Horizon Client, but this isn't recommended as the connection is a lot worse and the website-version has more limited features.

## Getting sudo

Fill this [form](https://elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/42471/lomake.html) to request admin rights to your virtual desktop. You can state as the reason for requesting administrative priviledges that developing MOOC-center's software is impossible without admin rights.

- For the _Identification of workstation_, put the name of your virtual desktop. It should be `vdi-<your university username>`.

## Setting up secret project in the virtual desktop

### Setting up git and GitHub
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1. Open a terminal and go to `/data/username/Code/secret-project-331`.

2. Install google cloud cli with `sudo snap install google-cloud-cli --classic` and then log into it with `gcloud auth login`.

3. Follow the instructions from the project's `doc/Development.md` to set up the environment.
2. Follow the instructions from the project's `doc/Development.md` to set up the environment.
- **NB!** most of the tools and dependencies are already installed during setting up the project space, so you can skip ahead to the section _Running the development environment_

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