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1. Download your VM appliance of choice, e.g. SL5-32min-v3.ova for "bare bones". Available VMs are described on the page GlastRelease Virtual Machines . 
2. Bring up the VirtualBox gui
3. Type ctrl-I or click on the "Import Appliance.." item in the File menu and follow instructions.  You will have a chance to modify characteristics of the machine at this time, but you can do it later just as well. We recommend you leave it as is to start with.
4. Start the new VM by selecting it and clicking on the green arrow. It will take a couple minutes to boot up.
5. Click on the Devices menu and select "Install Guest Additions.."
6. Shut down the machine (from the System menu select "Shutdown").
7. Restart.
8. Log in (e.g. with username lat). Among the icons on your desktop should be one that looks like a CD and has a name something like VBOXADDITIONS_4.1.18_78361.
9. The Guest Additions might not be operational yet.  If it is operational, the console will probably be larger than the first time you brought up the machine. You can tell for sure by mouse behavior. If, after you do something in the VM like bring up a terminal window, the mouse seems to be "trapped" inside the VM, the Guest Additions are not fully installed.  If so, you can free the mouse for use in a host machine window by pressing the right ctrl key on your keyboard.) key (by default Right Ctrl key) whose name appears in the lower right corner of the VM window.
   1. To finish installing Guest Additions, double click on the VBOXADDITIONS icon, then on autorun.sh.  
   2. Another dialog box will come up.  Click "Run in Terminal".
   3. If you're not already root, you will be prompted for the root password.  The resulting output should look like this .
   4. Log out and log back in. 
10. Depending on appliance version, you might need to install cvs and scons.  Check by bringing up a terminal window and typing "which cvs". if the response is "Command not found" you need to install it, and similarly for scons.  To install them
    1. log in as root or su to root.
    2. For cvs you only need to issue one command
       1. yum install cvs
    3. For scons issue the following commands
       1. wget  http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/scons/scons-2.1.0.tar.gz
       2. tar zxf scons-2.1.0.tar.gz
       3. cd scons-2.1.0
       4. python setup.py install
       5. cd ..
       6. rm -rf scons-2.1.0

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