- Download JABAWS Virtual Appliance (520M)
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The Virtual Appliance (VA) package allows you to run a JABAWS server installed on TurnKey Linux as a virtual machine on your laptop or desktop computer. A complete guide to the JABAWS VA is given in the manual, but for the impatient, a brief instructions are given below:
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- download and install VMWare Player.
- Unpack the JABAWS virtual appliance and open it with VMware Player.
-If you use a Mac, or prefer not to use VMWare, then :
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- - download and install Virtual Box.
- - Unpack the JABAWS virtual appliance, import it into VirtualBox and then start the appliance.
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+If you work on Mac do the same using VMware Fusion, or for free alternative use a WAR JABAWS package.
Testing
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The easiest way to test that your JABAWS Virtual appliance is working is to use Jalview.
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- - Launch the desktop version of Jalview
+To check that your JABAWS virtual appliance is working visit the Services Status page available from the main JABAWS menu. For this enter the JABAWS URL for your new server into a web browser. This is shown once the appliance is booted up.
+Alternatively you can use Jalview to complete the testing.
+- Launch the desktop version of Jalview
- Open the Jalview desktop's preferences panel (from the Tools->Preferences menu option), select the Webservices panel and press the New Service URL button.
- Enter the JABAWS URL for your new server. This is shown once the appliance is booted up.
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-Last update: 1 April 2011
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Last update: 16 September 2011
Peter Troshin, Jim Procter and Geoff Barton, The Barton Group, University of Dundee, UK