Using a virtual machine and a X server to (almost) use Siril on Windows Mathieu Bertholet 23/10/2015 Rev. 00 – Initial Version Summary Overview ............................................................................................................................................3 Download the Ubuntu installation ......................................................................................................3 Install VirtualBox.................................................................................................................................4 Creating our virtual machine. ..............................................................................................................5 Installing our virtual machine ............................................................................................................ 11 Change the network parameters of your virtual machine : ........................................................ 13 Let’s install Siril in hapiness ............................................................................................................... 14 Install pre requisites ...................................................................................................................... 14 Install Siril ..................................................................................................................................... 14 MobaXterm Installation .................................................................................................................... 16 Copy your files to the virtual machine ............................................................................................... 18 Launch Siril (Finally) .......................................................................................................................... 19 Daily usage ....................................................................................................................................... 20 Links ................................................................................................................................................. 20 Overview Siril is an astronomy images pre processing and processing software This software works on GNU/Linux, FreeBSD and Mac. Although it is possible tu use a virtual machine to emulate a GNU/ Linux distribution (Ubuntu in this case) and Siril. The goal is to use Siril directly on Windows without the limitation of using it on the virtualization window which can be restricting. I use VirtualBox to virtualize. To display the software in Windows, I’m using MobaXterm which allows to redirect a X Server (the graphical part of Siril) in Windows. The storage remains in the virtual machine but MobaXterm offers a simple way to transfer the files to be processed on the virtual machine. Download the Ubuntu installation At the following URL : http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop - Select 64 or 32 Bits according to your platform and click « Download », is file is about 1GB it can take a while to download. Install VirtualBox - Download the installation program at the following URL : https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads - Once the download complete ; launch the installation and follow the instructions (Next, Next, Next, …) Creating our virtual machine. - Launch VirtualBox - Click on New - Give your virtual machine a nice name - Select Linux - Select Ubuntu 64 or 32 Bits according of the image you’ve downloaded and then click Next. - Assign some memory to your virtual machine. More is the best and depends on memory available on your computer. If you can’t assign at least 2GB, stop the reading here and go get a new computer. On my computer I’ve assigned 4GB. 2Gb may be enough. - Select « Create a virtual disk now» and then « create ». - Kepp VDI - Keep « Assign dynamically ». - Set up the disk size for your virtual machine. Once again it depends on the available storage you have on your computer. A 50GB disk gives us enough space. - Click now on « create » and the virtual machine is beeing created. Installing our virtual machine Your download of Ubuntu should be finished (Nope ? Wait a bit and go get a coffee) Click on your virtual machine and then on « Settings » then « Storage » then on the « Empty » « IDE Controller » then on the CD image and select « Choose a virtual CD/DVD » - Navigate to your downloaded Ubuntu ISO file like ubuntu-15.10-desktop-amd64.iso and click OK - Launch your virtual machine by clicking on Start - A window opens with the installation of Ubuntu, just follow the installation instructons. Change the network parameters of your virtual machine : - Go to “Settings”, “Network » and select the « Bridged adapter » option then select your (physical) network card atteched to your network (wifi or wired) You now have a virtual machine running Ubuntu. Hapinness and felicity flows into your heart ! Let’s install Siril in hapiness I here use the installation process described on the site with some additionnal packages. Install pre requisites - Launch a Terminal sudo apt-get -y install autoconf build-essential libgtk-3-dev fftw3- dev libgsl0-dev libcfitsio3-dev libconfig++-dev libtiff-dev libjpeg- dev libraw-dev libffms2-dev libopencv-dev subversion openssh-server Install Siril - Grab the archive svn co https://free-astro.vinvin.tf/svn/siril/branches/0.9/ siril - Navigate into the directory cd siril - Perfom an update svn up - And perform the installation autoreconf -fi ./configure make sudo make install - We’ll get the IP address of the virtual machine as we’ll need this later on : - A quick reboot and we’re good to go MobaXterm Installation Now, let’s install MobaXterm which will allows to connect to the virtual machine and launch Siril directly from Windows – Remember ? that’s why we’re here ! - Download the MobaXterm installation file at the following URL : http://mobaxterm.mobatek.net/MobaXterm_Setup_8.2.msi - Install with « Next, Next, Next, … » Once installed lauch it and … “Oh my ! this is command line !”. No worries, it’s quite simple ;) - Lets connect to our virtual machine with the IP address we’ve got just before ; typing the following on MobaXterm : ssh user_created_during_ubuntu_install@yourip In my case it’s : ssh [email protected] - Enter your password (will not display on typing) and save it if you wish. Now you are connected, MobaXterm displays the content of your home directory on the virtual machine on the right panel : Copy your files to the virtual machine You can copy the files to be processed (lights and DOF) using the Upload function : Launch Siril (Finally) Once your files have been copied, we can now lauch Siril by simply typing siril Then Enter And, abracadabra, Siril launch into Windows : Daily usage Cos, yes you have to process files every day 1. Start the virtual machine 2. Launch MobaXterm 3. Connect to the virtual machine from MobaXterm ssh user@IP 4. Launch Siril from MobaXterm siril Enjoy ;) Links Siril : http://free-astro.vinvin.tf/index.php/Siril/fr Who is behind Siril ? : http://free-astro.vinvin.tf/index.php/Siril#Who_is_behind_Siril.3F VirtualBox : https://www.virtualbox.org/ Ubuntu : http://www.ubuntu.com/ MobaXterm : http://mobaxterm.mobatek.net/ Do not hesitate to help the developers by offering them a cofee: https://mobaxterm.mobatek.net/subscription.html http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop/contribute.