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Upder the Options tab, select shared folders, and select the "LinuxShare". Choose Properties to set the path to a suitable location; you can choose any path, such as Q:\OddPathName. Whatever the path, the LinuxVM will always see it as "LinuxShare".
Start LinuxVM
"Play" the LinuxVM (VMware uses "play" to mean turn on). The first time you run it, you'll get a message about ownership; click "I copied it". Once it has booted, you will have a screen with a user "LinuxVM"; click on that. The password is "data".
Configure FSL and FreeSurfer subject folders
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LinuxVM has set up FSL and FreeSurfer to look for subject folders "subjects4FSL" and "subjects4freesurfer" in LinuxShare, so create those.
From within Linux, open a file browser (1), and go to LinuxShare (2). Copy all the subfolders from the Desktop folder "subjects for FreeSurfer (must be in SUBJECTS_DIR)" to "subjects4freesurfer". (FreeSurfer expects these files to be in the subjects folder, similar to the way SPM needs MNI templates).
You can now use FreeSurfer and FSL in this LinuxVM.
Set up network connection between CSPM and LinuxVM
This step is to set up connections between CSPM and FSL & FreeSurfer, so CSPM can run commands automatically.
Install PuTTy
Identify VM network
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