Here you'll find all information regarding the hands on tutorials for the G5K-FIT School.

In order to be able to start, you'll need to verify your system is compliant with the course material. Please refer to the instructions below on how to get your system ready for the tutorial.

We provide a virtual machine image which contains a ready to use instance of gnuradio, the same version as the one in the FIT/CorteXlab platform.

This VM image is provided in .ova format (open virtualization archive), which theorically makes it runnable on various virtualization software, but we only support virtualbox 5.2 or greater.

Thus, to be able to use this VM, you need to have:

• A computer
• An internet connection to be able to connect to the FIT/CorteXlab platform in particular:
  • we use port 2269 for ssh connection, some Wifi network might block these ports
  • The Tutorial will work from anywhere in the world, however launching GNURadio on the CorteXlab serveur migth result in long execution because of its X interface.
• virtualbox version 5.2 or greater

You can get the VM image from http://xp.cortexlab.fr/downloads/debian-jessie-cortexlab.ova (or on provided usb keys).

Once you have copied the ova to your laptop, follow these steps:

• execute: $ VBoxManage hostonlyif create (this will ensure that additionnal virtual network interface(s) are created before importing the VM)
• import the ova in virtualbox.

From there you can start the VM. You can connect to accounts cxlbusr or root, without any password. You can also connect to the VM with ssh. The network address to connect to depends on the operating system (use your OS interface managing commands or gui to get the IP address). On Linux, it will most likely be 192.168.56.101, so once the VM is started you should be able to $ ssh cxlbusr@192.168.56.101 or ssh root@192.168.56.101 (change the IP address accordingly, if it's different on your laptop).

You should usr the cxlbusr account since the GNU Radio FIT/CorteXlab toolchain is preconfigured in this account (it is installed in /home/cxlbusr/opt/cxlb-toolchain).

This VM is also preconfigured to allow easy connection to tutorial accounts on the FIT/CorteXlab platform. You can execute $ ssh tuto<X>@airlock. The appropriate keypair is already installed in the VM, you'll only need the passphrase of the key which will be given during the tutorial session.