Saturday, July 29. 2017Using OSGeoLive with VirtualBoxFOSS4G 2017 is just a few weeks away. Many of the workshops will utilize OSGeoLive as a means for workshop participants to get up and running quickly with OSGeo Free and Open Source GIS tools and Boston data. OSGeoLive11 is a LUbuntu 16.04 distribution. OSGeoLive11 is going thru the final stages of prep. You can download the OSGeoLiveRC1 ISO for it from http://aiolos.survey.ntua.gr/gisvm/11.0/osgeo-live-11.0rc1-amd64.iso. Once OSGeoLive11 is fully prepped, it will be linked on the osgeolive site http://live.osgeo.org. If you want to run OSGeoLive11 from bootable media, you can burn the ISO to DVD or thumb drive and boot. In final prep, you can expect to have a Virtual Image ready to go you can host on Virtual Box or VMWare and make further customizations. OSGeoLive11 thumb drives will be handed out at the conference. If you are doing any PostgreSQL/ PostGIS / pgRouting / or other GIS training, OSGeoLive is pretty handy. OSGeoLive11 contains PostgreSQL 9.5 (I know slightly dated) , PostGIS 2.3.2 and cli tools, pgRouting 2.4.1, and osm2pgrouting 2.2.0. In addition it contains popular GIS Desktop friends QGIS, OpenJump, gvSig, uDig as well as power tools like GRASS, R, GDAL CLI toolkit, and Jupyter notebooks. Mapping Servers MapServer and GeoServer. We'll be using pgRouting, osm2pgRouting, PostGIS, PostgreSQL, QGIS, and OpenJump in our workshop Problem Solving with pgRouting. A good chunk of FOSS GIS relies on PostgreSQL via PostGIS so you'll find a lot of already setup PostgreSQL databases on this disk. For this set of exercises, we're going to go thru using the ISO media linked above on a Windows 7 VirtualBox setup. If you are using any other OS (e.g. Mac OSX, Linux, Unix), instructions should be much the same. Much of the material we will be covering in our workshop is also covered in our recently published book pgRouting: A practical guide. We'll be selling hard-copies of this at the workshop and the FOSS4G2017 Book booth in addition to our other PostGIS and PostgreSQL books. Our workshop is almost full, but still a couple more seats left. Many workshops are full so you should sign up and buy now if you want to attend a workshop. Also note that last day to buy tickets on-line for the conference itself is August 3rd. Given that we have a 1200 seat capacity and a little over 1000 tickets have been sold, it's possible there will be no more tickets left to sell at the conference.
Installing VirtualBoxDownload virtual box installer from https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads and run as usual For Ubuntu deskop you also have option of More detailed instructions for installing and configuring Virtual Box are Installing VirtualBox. Creating a VM with the ISO
Just trying it outIf you just want to test drive software on disk and not save your work, you can choose the default: Try Lubuntu without Installing and click the enter key 
Choose keyboard, click enter key and then once you are in, you should have a screen that looks like: 
To explore PostGIS and pgRouting, click on the Databases folder on the desktop: Should show you a screen like: 
Now launch pgAdmin III and click into the PostgreSQL You can explore the databases and even create new ones. 
You can for example install pgrouting in the osm_local database using the gui or with SQL command: 
Using it for real workAlthough you can create databases, edit existing databases and use all the tools without installing, you'll lose whatever work you do in the process if you reboot the machine. If you want to use OSGeoLive as a permanent fixture, even installing additional software (like a newer PostgreSQL like 9.6 or 10), you'll want to choose option 2 (use down arrow key): Install Lubuntu 
To do so reboot the VM. If you don't get the boot disk option, because you chose eject disk, you can go into configuration of the Virtual Box VM -> Storage -> Controller IDE and point at the iso file. 
Follow the step by step instructions from there. Once installed, anything you do to your virtual machine e.g. install more stuff, create databases, create QGIS workspaces etc. will be maintained. There is a scary message that says Erase disk and install OSGeo Live, this is perfectly safe to do since you are installing in a VM that already has it's own disk set aside so it won't harm your base OS. One other issue I had with setup, the install dialog did not show all the buttons on screen, so I had to drag the dialog window to see the Continue button. Trackbacks
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