If you have an recent version of Windows as the base OS on your laptopi or desktop you can still run FAME on your box. Pick one of the major hypervisors (such as VMware or VIrtualBox). This also holds true for MacOS.
- Create a Debian VM under the hypervisor.
- Install and build FAME as normal under Debian
The following instructions for VMware were submitted by another developer, your mileage may vary.
Resources needed for the "host" Debian VM plus the nested VMs (one per "node")
- CPU: Try to limit 1 "node" VM per actual core
- RAM: 2 GB for host VM plus 2 GB per "node" VM
- Free disk: 4 GB for host VM plus 6 GB scratch space plus 2 GB per "node" VM (default value of $FAME_VFS_BYTES=6)
- VMware Workstation
- Reflection w/SP5 (as an optional method to connect to the VMs from Windows)
- https://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/ and choose the "amd64" via http option
- Start VMware and use the wizard to create a new VM
- Guest OS Installation: installer disk image file, choose the "debian-9.x.y-amd64-netinst.iso" in your Downloads folder
- Select a Guest OS: Choose Linux, Debian 64-bit, with the highest release available (ie, 8.x is fine)
- Name the Virtual Machine: whatever you like, but as it will function as the ToRMS, that might be a good name.
- Specify disk capacity: the default 20G is sufficient for up to four "node" VMs, assuming you do NOT put a desktop environment on the host VM. Single/multiple files is not important, use the default.
- Ready to create Virtual Machine: review your choices, the default networking is NAT (use it). There's no reason to customize any hardware.
- Use the whole disk, LVM and partitioning is not needed
- Advanced use: repartition the (virtual) drive to remove swap space
- Normal user should be "l4mdc"
- Suggested password is "iforgot" for both root and l4mdc.
- When it reboots, log in.
Finally, install and build FAME as normal under Debian