The manual version of FMNEAR is openly distributed to anyone interested
For additional information, or to report any issues or bugs, contact Bertrand DELOUIS delouis@geoazur.unice.fr
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****** Complete virtual machine FMNEAR from 19 november 2024 ******
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This is a not totally up-to-date, but fonctional, manual version of the complete virtual machine FMNEAR under VM virtualbox (Oracle).
It is a compressed .zip archive, of about 11 Gb.
Once decompressed it will occupy about 21 Gb.
The virtual machine FMNEAR can be stored on an external storage media, like a usb disk or a SD card, if you are short of space on your computer (although performance will be better if installed on an internal disk).
You must have Oracle VM VirtualBox installed on your machine. From the VM VirtualBox you can open the FMNEAR virtual machine stored internally on your machine or on external media.
You can download a free version of Oracle VM VirtualBox at: https://www.virtualbox.org/
If your operating system is not up-to-date, you may try the version 6.1 which works very well for FMNEAR:
https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Download_Old_Builds_6_1
There are Oracle VM VirtualBox versions compatible with Windows, Linux, Mac... Compatibility of trhe FMNEAR virtual machine with versions 6.1 to 7.1 of VM VirtualBox has been verified under Linux and Windows . Not sure about the Mac version.
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Link to download the FMNEAR virtual machine, manual version :
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wPLLnEhIANbIczMOTXANo3kumQJu79Hp/view?usp=sharing
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A document to help installing the virtual machine can be found at:
https://sites.google.com/view/fmnear/tips-and-tricks?authuser=0
Once installed, you can update to the last version of the FMNEAR manual version codes using the following link: https://sites.google.com/view/fmnear/new-2025011-update-fmnear-manual-version?authuser=0
Note 1: you may want to define a shared folder between the virtual machine and your host machine. You can define it in the " setting " (configuration) menu of the virtual machine. This should be done from the setting (configuration) menu of Oracle VM VirtualBox before starting the FMNEAR virtual machine. Once launched the FMNEAR virtual machine, the shared folder will be within the " /media " root folder. If you want to use the shared folder you may have redefined, you will need to be root (su). The password for root is " fmnear ".
Note 2: to redefine the number of CPUs and memory attributed to the VM machine, you should do that from the setting (configuration) menu of Oracle VM VirtualBox before starting the FMNEAR virtual machine. Depending on the ressources in CPUs (cores) of you machine, try to attribute as many CPUs to the virtual machine as possible, but not all if you want to reserve ressources for your main operating system. The computation speed of FMNEAR will increase with the number of CPUs attributed to the VM since several processes are launched simultaneously to parallelize the calculation.
Note 3: if you copy some folders or files into the VM as root, you may not have permission to use or modify them under the default user " fmnear ". However, as root, you can attribute the rights to all users using a command of the kind " chmod 777 filename " or " chmod 777 * ".