
in box "System", in the "Accelerator" tab, check that the two boxes for "Enable VT-x/AMD-V" and "Enable Nested Paging" are enabled. You will have a new VM in the left-hand side of the VirtualBox window. when prompted for the location, specify the name of the NEW folder which should be put under your ~/VirtualBox VMs/ folder, and assign 8 GB of hard-disk space, then press "create". select that the memory should be "dynamically allocated". choose "Create a virtual hard drive now".
"infn-stat-2013", specify type: Linux, version: Ubuntu (don't chose the 64 bit variant)
assign a name to the new machine, e.g. Click in VirtualBox the "New" icon, then chose the following options:. This distribution, unlike Ubuntu desktop in some cases, has no graphics problems with VirtualBox. Dowload the ISO image of Linux Mint distribution from your nearest mirror site. Please, find here the list of supported OS). Jump to the section " Install the required software".ĭowload VirtualBox 4.2.12 or later here for your platform (e.g. You can skip the following instruction if you have Linux or Mac OS X 10.8 installed on your machine. Instructions to setup the VM are given below. MS Windows, Mac OS X earlier than 10.8 and other operating systems: we recommend the installation of a virtual machine (VM) using VirtualBox on which a Linux Mint installation is performed. You can download Xcode for free from App Store. On Mac OS X 10.8, after installing Xcode, you must run Xcode and, within the Xcode, select to install the component "Command Line Tools", which was installed by default in previous versions of Mac OS. Mac OS X 10.8 (mountain lion): Xcode must be insalled to add compiler and other developer utilities. Linux: Ubuntu, Scientific Linux, Linux Mint. The supported platforms for the exercises are: We encourage anyway all participants to preinstall the software below. We assume that participants will do the exercise sessions in groups of 3-4 people, so at least one laptop over 3 should have the required software preinstalled.
The installation will take some time and requires extensive network download, so we request you to install the required software before coming to the school in order to be ready for the exercise sessions. Instruction for exercise sessions: computer setupĮxercise sessions will include computer-based examples and will involve the use of CERN toolkit ROOT, including the packages RooFit, RooStats and TMVA, and Theta framework.