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openBIS - next generation UI

Setting up the environment

  1. Install latest version of VirtualBox (https://www.virtualbox.org)

  2. Install latest version of Vagrant (https://www.vagrantup.com/downloads.html)

  3. vagrant plugin install vagrant-vbguest vagrant-notify-forwarder vagrant-disksize

  4. cd env/dev

  5. vagrant up

  6. Start openBIS in your Eclipse - it should be running at http://localhost:8888/openbis-test. Make sure you can log in with credentials 'admin / password'.

  7. openBIS next generation UI is now running at http://localhost:8124

Additional info for Linux users

On Ubuntu (and maybe on other Linux distributions, too), you might get errors like this when running "vagrant up":

terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::runtime_error' what(): Could not add watch

This situation will prevent the development environment from working properly. The reason for the error is https://github.com/mhallin/vagrant-notify-forwarder/issues/5. It can be fixed by increasing the maximum number of watches on the host system. On Ubuntu, this is done like this:

echo fs.inotify.max_user_watches=524288 | sudo tee -a /etc/sysctl.conf && sudo sysctl -p