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Files in Virtual DICE

Your home directory in Virtual DICE is /home/guest. This is where your files will be saved to. It's a local directory in the virtual machine.

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The root user on Virtual DICE

Unlike on a normal DICE machine, all users of Virtual DICE can use the superuser root.

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Logging in to Virtual DICE

When Virtual DICE starts, you're logged in automatically.

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Install Virtual DICE

Virtual DICE is distributed in a virtual machine image file. This page explains how to install it.

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Virtual DICE

You can run a version of DICE Linux in a virtual machine on your own computer. This is called Virtual DICE.

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Container encryption using Veracrypt

Veracrypt can be used on your own desktop DICE computer to create an encrypted container on the local disk or to encrypt an entire device, such as a USB drive.

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Login Logs

To help enhance the security of the Informatics computing infrastructure, we provide a web interface which allows you to review your recent login activity. The site is at:

https://cabin.inf.ed.ac.uk/authview/

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How to turn off Mac "Internet Sharing"

Macs have a feature called "Internet Sharing" which lets a computer share its network connection with other devices nearby. This can be useful in the home but it causes havoc on the Informatics network, so has to be disabled.

How to disable Internet Sharing on a Mac

This should work for all recent versions of macOS, although the System Preferences window may look slightly different to the one shown here.

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Apple network issues

This page concerns the implementation in some versions of Apple's network stack of some misfeatures related to their sleep proxy. This can sometimes be turned off on Macs; it's not clear if it can be on their other products. It also cautions against inadvertent enabling of DHCP service behaviour.

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Remote file access with sshfs

If you need to get access to files on a remote machine, but the filespace on that machine isn't normally visible from your machine, you can often access it using sshfs.

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