ACIS Windows Machine
ACIS Ops has a Windows 10 virtual machine which lives on John ZuHone's macOS workstation, pannenberg.cfa.harvard.edu. This virtual machine may be used to write and edit Microsoft Office documents, in particular flowcharts using Microsoft Visio.
In order to use the machine, you need to ssh into pannenberg, start up the machine if it is not running, and then log into the virtual machine itself using a remote desktop client. You can do all of this from the HEAD LAN or while logged into the CfA VPN.
1. SSH into pannenberg.cfa.harvard.edu
The virtual machine is owned by the acisdude account on pannenberg. SSH as acisdude into the machine and enter the password in the usual way. Once logged in, check to see if the virtual machine is running using the is_windows_running command:
pannenberg:~ acisdude$ is_windows_running
no
pannenberg:~ acisdude$
2. If Windows is running, skip to Step 3. Otherwise, start windows up using the `start_windows` command:
pannenberg:~ acisdude$ start_windows
Waiting for VM "maximus" to power on...
VM "maximus" has been successfully started.
pannenberg:~ acisdude$
3. Use a remote desktop client to boot into the Windows machine on pannenberg. You can use the Microsoft Remote Desktop client on Windows or macOS, or you can use the rdesktop command-line program on CentOS 7, e.g. rdesktop pannenberg.cfa.harvard.edu. In either case, you will have to log into the machine as acisdude with the usual password.
4. When you are finished with your work, close down the machine by hitting the Start button in the lower-left corner of the Windows VM, navigating to the power button right above it, and clicking "Shut down". Alternatively, you can issue the stop_windows command from the same terminal that you started it from:
pannenberg:~ acisdude$ stop_windows
Windows is powered off.
pannenberg:~ acisdude$
There will be a slight delay while it powers the machine down.