GeekoCFD text mode
“GeekoCFD text mode” is a live distribution based on openSUSE – 64 bit, whose purpose is to provide easy and immediate access to OpenFOAM®. The distribution consists of a base installation, which boots at runlevel 3 (text only with network), and provides direct access to a pre-built copy of OpenFOAM. Images are available in a variety of formats for both physical computers and virtual machines.
All trademarks belong to their respective owners. This offering is not approved or endorsed by OpenCFD Limited, the producer of the OpenFOAM software and owner of the OPENFOAM® and OpenCFD® trade marks.
Download
Media
USB & disk image
This is an image of your disk, ready to be written to either a USB drive or your hard disk. When written, it will erase all data on a disk. During the first boot, your partition will be automatically resized to fill available space.
ISO image
Burn this ISO file to a DVD (or CD, if the space allows), and you'll be able to boot directly from the disc.
Preload ISO
A bootable ISO containing the appliance disk image. Boots into a simple graphical environment and prompts for confirmation before writing the image onto the hard drive. Useful for performing automated system installs/preloads.
Warning: Overwrites all data on the target hard drive.
Virtual
Open Virtualization Format (OVF)
The OVF format is an open standard for packaging and distributing virtual appliances. It is not tied to any particular hypervisor or system architecture.
VMware / VirtualBox / KVM image
Whether you use VMware, VirtualBox, or KVM, this vmdk is a ready-to-use virtual appliance.
Xen guest image
This Xen guest image is ready to run on a Xen hypervisor host.
KVM image
This KVM image (compressed .qcow2) is ready to run on a KVM hypervisor host.
Cloud
SUSE Cloud / OpenStack image (KVM)
SUSE Cloud is a supported, enterprise-ready private cloud solution based on OpenStack. This image can be directly imported into SUSE Cloud and OpenStack without any additional image conversions.
Release notes
Changelog
Version 5.0.0 (Public release)
- Updated version of OpenFOAM® 2.2.x (x > 1, Including commit 71fcc245333b470549e11ad6aba739746a1085be – Fri Apr 5 15:29:09 2013 +0100)
- Upgraded packages according to openSUSE 12.3 release
- Hyper-V image was replaced by Windows Azure image.
Main features
- System
o OpenSUSE 12.3– 64 bit
o Kernel 3.7.10
o gcc 4.7.2 - Scientific software
o OpenFOAM 2.2.x
o gnuplot
Notes on past releases
- GeekoCFD 4.0.0 is now unsupported. Only a preload ISO image is available for download. Users are advised to upgrade to version 5.0.0.
Changelog
34 dependencies removed
499 dependencies updated
3 files removed
2 files updated
54 new dependencies
3 new files
5 new software selections
2 software selections removed
Build configuration updated
Script configuration updated
Technical Details
Appliance configuration
Accounts
| User | Password |
|---|---|
| geeko | geekoPassword |
| root | rootPassword |
Basic settings
| Keyboard: | english-us |
|---|---|
| Time zone: | UTC |
| Language: | en_US.UTF-8 |
| Network: | dhcp |
| Firewall: | enabled |
Software
1 patterns, 552 packagesView package list…
Security summary
-
Includes the following unofficial sources:
-
No custom software packages were uploaded.
-
Overlay files were uploaded, but none are executable.
-
No custom scripts were enabled.
Version 5.0.0
Testdrive
Older releases
- Version 4.0.0 – 259 days old
View all appliances published by Alberto Passalacqua
You need to sign in to comment
Everyone's comments
please, how can I run or instal the the above media on my Linux system SUSE 12.1
please, help me
GeekoCFD Text Mode is a text-based Linux distribution based on openSUSE 12.1, thought to be used only to perform calculations on machines without a GUI (computing nodes or workstations). The installation can be performed by downloading the appropriate medium for your use-case, booting the system from it, and follow the guided procedure.