vagrant-centos-singularity

Vagrant project to spin up a virtual machine where you can try out Singularity.

Prerequisites

• At least 1GB memory in addition to the memory for your host machine.
• Vagrant 1.9.1 or higher.
• VirtualBox 5.1.14 or higher.

Spining Up Virtual Machine

1. Install VirtualBox if not already installed on your machine (https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads).

2. Install Vagrant if not already instaleld on your machine (https://www.vagrantup.com/downloads.html).

3. Check out this project from git.

4. Run the following command from the directory where Vagrantfile and other files are placed. This will bring up a new virtual machine equipped with Singularity.

   $ vagrant up

Runnning Singularity

SSH into the virtual machine:

$ vagrant ssh

Run Singularity:

$ singularity

Notes

• The VM will have CentOS 6.8.