GBIB virtual box on MacBook Pro
Andrew Feinberg
Thanks.
Brian Lee
Dear Andrew,
Thank you for using the UCSC Genome Browser and your question about the GBiB on the new M1 chip MacBook machines.
We have also noted that Virtualbox doesn't support ARM virtualization. At this time it is unclear if the free VirtualBox VM environment will ever be updated to run on Apple Silicon.
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All the best,
Can someone please advise on how to install a virtual box on a computer with an M1 chip? The link provided on the Gbib website flips an error that there is hardware incompatibility in that it needs an AMD chip.
Thanks.
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Andrew Feinberg
On Jun 27, 2022, at 1:25 PM, Brian Lee <bria...@soe.ucsc.edu> wrote:
Brian Lee
Hi Andrew,
We do not know of a paid alternative. One thought we've had is to try Docker. In theory, there should be a way to run GBiC on docker, an engineer shares. GBiC isn't a virtualbox image, but instead runs all the installation steps and is free for non-commercial use just like GBiB: https://genome.ucsc.edu/goldenpath/help/gbic.html
We are not 100% sure, but in principle, Docker's ubuntu should automatically start to pull ARM binaries for Apache, etc. to install a UCSC Genome Browser mirror. Here is a link to more information: https://genome.ucsc.edu/goldenpath/help/mirror.html#docker-installation-instructions
If it does work for your on your M1 laptop, can you please let us know and we can update some of our internal documentation.
All the best,
Hiram Clawson
We are trying out the Mac OSX arm64 (M1) machine binaries:
http://hgdownload.soe.ucsc.edu/admin/exe/macOSX.arm64/README.txt
See if those binaries will function on your newer Mac machine.
--Hiram
On 6/27/22 1:25 PM, Andrew Feinberg wrote:
> Brian is there a paid alternative?
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> On Jun 27, 2022, at 1:25 PM, Brian Lee <bria...@soe.ucsc.edu> wrote:
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> Dear Andrew,
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> Thank you for using the UCSC Genome Browser and your question about the GBiB on the new M1 chip MacBook machines.
>
> We have also noted that Virtualbox doesn't support ARM virtualization. At this time it is unclear if the free VirtualBox VM environment will ever be updated to run on Apple Silicon.
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> All the best,
> On Mon, Jun 27, 2022 at 9:16 AM Andrew Feinberg <andrew....@weizmann.ac.il<mailto:andrew....@weizmann.ac.il>> wrote:
> Can someone please advise on how to install a virtual box on a computer with an M1 chip? The link provided on the Gbib website flips an error that there is hardware incompatibility in that it needs an AMD chip.
> Thanks.
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