

Bring up the shared folders dialog by clicking the "Shared Folders" option in the VirtualBox control panel indicated by the "1" in the image.It is a simple process and is illustrated in the image below Configuring of shared folders must be performed whilst the VM is in a stopped state. To allow read/write access from the VM to your laptop/desktop filesystems you must configure shared folders. The next step is to configure VirtualBox to allow read/write access to folders on your host machine. Once the process has completed you should see the following window, indicating that the import was successful and the VM is in a stopped state.ĭo not start the VM at this point. This will prompt the appearance of the following dialog Once the download is complete, double click on the file which will cause VirtualBox to launch with the dialog box below click "import" as indicated by the red arrow in the image.

The Ensembl Virtual Machine can be downloaded from Download and import the Ensembl Virtual Machine You can obtain it by visiting the VirtualBox downloads page and downloading and installing the appropriate standard virtual box platform package for your platform. Virtualbox is a free and opensource virtualisation platform used to run the Ensembl Virtual Machine it is necessary to download and install this package to run the VM (Virtual Machine).

It is a quick and simple way to get started with Ensembl. Ensembl has available for download a virtual machine pre-packaged and pre-configured the latest ensembl-api.
