The deployment in VirtualBox is the same.

Install and start the VM

• Download latest version of UTM
• browse gallery to have a image setup, we select ubuntu 20.04 LTS https://docs.getutm.app/guides/ubuntu/
• The arm64 ISO image can be dowloaded from https://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/focal/release/
• During import and setup from ISO, select settings with all default (64GB disk space, 4096MB RAM, default cores ...)
• create a new network setting with type "Emulated VLAN" and forward port 22 to 2200 of localhost so you can ssh to VM from localhost.

In order to ssh to the virtual machine to run commands through ansible. You can config ssh (in your local machine) with:

Host mse468
  HostName 127.0.0.1
  User max
  Port 2200

• The default aiida user is granted with the sudo permission and the password is aiida.

• To reboot, remember to unmount the image and boot again.

• Install ubuntu desktop

sudo apt update
sudo apt install ubuntu-desktop
sudo reboot

Configure the VM

In the localhost (control machine)

• install the ansible https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/installation_guide/intro_installation.html#installation-guide
• Create a conda env for ansible deployment conda create -n ansible-mse python=3.9
• Install ansible with pip install ansible ansible-core
• (option) autocompletion setup for ansible commands.
• For simplicity, using -kK and prompt for password, we already have aiida user setup. run ansible-playbook -i inventory.yml playbook.yml -kK -vv.
• commont out install of singularity, not needed and cause the source error, (the GPG key using the one for amd64 arch.)
• the repo is in

troubleshotings

import from utm copy

• If you see "Failed to access data from shortcut", try the methods from utmapp/UTM#3774