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Empower Labs - Bring your own laptop!

Updated January 8, 2015
posted on September 16, 2014

I just wanted to reinforce something I heard during the webinar and at Empower last year.

 

If you are able, set up the Empower VM on your own laptop and use it in the labs!

 

The setup shouldn't be too hard to do (and the wonderful folks in the Information Center can help onsite, if you need it)

 

Unless I'm mistaken, you can get into any lab where there is an empty chair.  Some of the labs run out of workstations quickly.

 

And, you get to take the lab home with you.  I think the VM last year had 30-day or 60-day eval licenses on everything, so you can practice what you learned and show the folks back at work.

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replied on January 8, 2015

Hi.

Wondering if there would there be free wifi access available in labs for our devices we bring ?

 

 

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replied on December 4, 2014

I need to request a laptop to bring with me to the conference, our security for downloading is pretty locked down, so I was wondering if you think this will be an issue when I bring it to the conference for configuration?

Or is there a link for the 2015 conference that will provide the specs needed when bringing your own laptop?

 

 

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replied on December 4, 2014

That's perfectly fine. You can come to the Info Center and we'll have USB sticks that you can use to copy the files directly onto the machine.

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replied on December 4, 2014

So is there anything installed? The laptop I am bringing will not have the LF client installed.

 

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replied on December 4, 2014

The USB sticks will contain a virtual machine with all the software. You don't need anything on the machine itself.

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replied on December 4, 2014

System requirements:

·         64-bit OS for the host (laptop) machine
·         VMWare Player 6
·         Intel i5 CPU or better
·         8 GB of RAM
·         at least 50 GB free hard drive space, SSD recommended

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replied on January 7, 2015

Once we have all the requirements, are there some instructions to set it up?

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replied on January 7, 2015

Instructions are inside the rar file that you download with the VM inside

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replied on January 8, 2015

It's taking my computer hours to download the rar file...  Is this common? 

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replied on January 8, 2015

This will not be a speedy procedure but still worth trying before the conference (in the comfort of your own office). That way you can have more fun at the conference itself.

We had a few challenges installing that you may or may not experience:

  • slow download and slow subsequent extraction of the .RAR file because of the huge (16GB to 46GB) file size
  • VT-x was turned off in the BIOS of my laptop and had to be turned on before the VM would launch
  • Several requests for software updates and downloads before it was ready to go.
  • Now it is working fine!
     

See you all at the conference.  I'll be the one scamming cookies at the info center!

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replied on January 8, 2015

OK - I'll just have to be patient...

Thanks!

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replied on January 8, 2015

Tony, Save some cookies for me

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