This page facilitates users to import NVIK Virtual Machine (VM) for Oracle VirtualBox. Users need to install Oracle VirtualBox Version 6.1.12 or higher on their computer after that user can import NVIK VM in VirtualBox. Following is brief description...

• Downloading Oracle VirtualBox Software
• Installation of Oracle VirtualBox
• Downloading NVIK "nipah_vm.ova" VM appliance file
• Import NVIK Virtual machine in VirtualBox
• Run and Update NVIK Virtual machine in VirtualBox

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Downloading Oracle VirtualBox Software

Oracle VirtualBox is a virtualization application which runs across cross-platforms. To download VirtualBox and extension packages .vbox-extpack file, please visit the download page of VirtualBox. Go to the VirtualBox website and go to the download section. There are versions available for Windows, Mac, and Linux.

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Installation of Oracle VirtualBox

User can install VirtualBox with its extension packs and proceed to import NVIK VM "nipah_vm". User should follow below mentioned steps to install VirtualBox on their machine.

• Windows users can install VirtualBox by double clicking on the downloaded exe file and follow the instructions thereafter.
• Mac users can install VirtualBox by double clicking on the downloaded dmg file and follow the instructions thereafter.
• Linux users can install VirtualBox using downloaded deb or rpm file with following command to be run on terminal
  $ sudo dpkg -i virtualbox-*_amd64.deb
  or
  $ sudo yum install VirtualBox-*.rpm.

Oracle VirtualBox extension packages have a .vbox-extpack file name extension. To install an extension, simply download it from https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads and double-click on the package file and a Network Operations Manager window is shown to guide you through the required steps. Please check VirtualBox manual https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch02.html for more details.

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Downloading NVIK "nipah_vm.ova" VM appliance file

User should download NVIK VM "nipah_vm" for import VM appliance in VirtualBox. It is .ova file of ~4.3 GB size. The VM is based on Ubuntu 12.04 x64 with configuration 1 processor, 2 GB RAM, 15 GB HDD disk space, Two network (NAT, Host only) requires in VirtualBox for its working.

• Click here to download "nipah_vm.ova" file

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Import Virtual machine appliance file in VirtualBox

• In Oracle VM VirtualBox Manager, click the File -> Import Appliance to import the virtual machine appliance wizard.
• Browse and give your NVIK VM appliance file "nipah_vm.ova" path in Appliance to Import as shown in the figure below and click next
  
  
• Review the import VM appliace settings for your VirtualBox. You can import it using default settings with accepting Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
  
• Your VM is created after import VM and you can see NVIK VM "nipah_vm" your new VM name in the list.
  For more details about Import Wizard, please visit https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E26217_01/E26796/html/qs-import-vm.html
  

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Run and Update NVIK Virtual machine in VirtualBox

You can run the NVIK VM "nipah_vm" from the VirtualBox. It will start VM with auto-login to user "nipah" with password "nipah_vm", auto-start Apache webserver and MySQL database, then it will auto-open firefox by default after two minutes of the system starts to show NVIK in VM on URL http://localhost/nipah.

You can also check NVIK from VirtualBox host machine at URL http://192.168.56.101/nipah/ using default IP address of host-only adaptor network

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You can clone NVIK source code from GitHub URL https://github.com/tinabioinfo/nipah into your persoanl system or "nipah_vm" VM.

Go to the web directory: $ cd /opt/lampp/htdocs/

For new repository: $ sudo git clone https://github.com/tinabioinfo/nipah.git

For existing repository: $ cd nipah; sudo git pull origin master;

Update folder permission: $ sudo chown -R daemon.daemon /opt/lampp/htdocs/nipah/

Then Update the NVIK database: $ echo "drop databsae nipah; create database nipah"|/opt/lampp/bin/mysql -unipah -pnipah_vm ;
/opt/lampp/bin/mysql -unipah -pnipah_vm --force nipah < /opt/lampp/htdocs/nipah/data/nipah.sql

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