Can we add a JIRA account for Russell?  Then he can keep this issue updated.

Who should I have him contact?

Could you ask Takato-san to make an account with a request to JIRA access?

See the following for required information:

https://github.com/Subaru-PFS/doc/blob/master/services/account.rst

Bump – did this get anywhere?

We are working on it avidly!  Could you see what you can do to hurry Russell's Jira account along so he can contribute to this thread?  We have a couple of questions for you.

JFYI: One of the IPMU members are making his account, so he will get the account shortly.

I have created a VirtualBox VM for the Gen2 simulator.

As currently configured, the VM has a local SQLite3 database that it uses to allocate frames. This means that it does not connect ** to the Gen2 "frames" database that the Gen2 production system uses. If the PFS team wants a different configuration, we'll have to discuss the implications of that.

What do you think is the best way to distribute the VM? It is a 5 GB file in the Open Virtualization Archive (OVA) format as produced by the VirtualBox "Export Appliance" command. In the past, I have placed the file on my Google Drive and sent the URL to the interested parties. I could do that again if you want.

Another option might be for the PFS team to host the file. Does the PFS team have a shared storage location into which I could copy the file?

Let me know what you think about the database configuration and how best to distribute the VM. Thanks.

Thank you, Russell-san, for creating VM.

As far as I know, we have used our server to host the file and share among the team. You may see the previous versions in the following link.

https://pfs.ipmu.jp/internal/pfs-soft/subaru/

https://pfs.ipmu.jp/internal/webdav/tech/software/

(Note: you can access to them with you PFS account.) I personally would like to go in the similar way. You could copy the file to the latter location.

Thank you Moritani-san for the suggestion on where to place the Gen2 simulator VM.

Via my web browser, I can see the old VM folders in the first URL as well as the files listed in the second URL.

By what method can I copy the new VM to the second URL (scp, ftp, etc.)?

If you use mac or windows, you can map the above URL (or the parent directory, https://pfs.ipmu.jp/internal/webdav/tech/) as a network drive.

If you use linux, please install "cadaver" package and connect by commanding:

 cadaver https://pfs.ipmu.jp/internal/webdav/tech

Then you can use it similarly to ftp.

I copied the g2insdev.ova file, a checksum file, and README_VM to https://pfs.ipmu.jp/internal/webdav/tech/software/g2insdev_20190117

Listing collection `/internal/webdav/tech/software/g2insdev_20190117/': succeeded.
{{ README_VM 32048 Jan 21 14:06}}
{{ g2insdev.ova 5126127104 Jan 21 13:33}}
{{ g2insdev_checksum.txt 143 Jan 21 14:05}}

Let me know if you have any problems running the VM.

In this case we do not want to share frame IDs with the observatory. The filename prefix is slightly different off-site (PFLA, PFAA, or PFJA instead of PFSA) so that each location can operate independently without having filename conflicts.

If you ever pursue putting the system on a container please let us know.

I uploaded to the PFS  webdav server an updated copy of the Gen2 simulator VM. Here are the updated files:

Listing collection `/internal/webdav/tech/software/g2insdev_20200415/': succeeded.
README_VM 32048 Apr 15 18:11
g2insdev.ova 4550915584 Apr 15 18:11
g2insdev_checksum.txt 193 Apr 15 18:11

Since VM was provided (long time ago), I close this ticket.