README

Vagrantfile and playbook for installation of Dymola on Ubuntu from scratch using Vagrant

Dymola is a state-of-the-art commercial simulation environment for the modelling language Modelica. It is available for Windows and Linux operating systems from Dassault Systèmes.

Unfortunately, only a few Linux distributions are supported and installation on Linux rarely works out of the box.^[1]

This repository provides a machine-readable documentation of all steps necessary to create a virtual machine running Dymola for Linux using Vagrant and VirtualBox.

Installation

Vagrant reads the desired configuration of a VM including all software packages to be installed from the files in this repository and ensures that the configuration is realized. In order for this to work, you need to…​

• Clone this repository

• Install VirtualBox (version 6.1.18 works for me)

• Install Vagrant (version 2.2.15 works for me)

• Install Ansible (version 2.9.14 works for me)

• Install the vagrant-vbguest-plugin (version 0.29.0 works for me)

• Copy the directory linux_x86_64/ from the Dymola installation files into the folder in which you cloned the repository

Usage

TL;DR: just execute ./install.sh and wait for completion. Note that you will have to log into the VM once during installation when prompted.

Installation Script

./install.sh # read the script for details

The script assumes that the host OS is a Linux-variant. Running on Windows is not supported, but in this case you can just install Dymola natively anyway.

Configuration

Configuration is not required, but possible. By default, a VM with 2 CPUs and 2048 MiB RAM is created. The default directories created by GNOME in /home/vagrant/ are removed and Dymola and the dassaultsystemes-library are installed.

• For configuring the VM (RAM, CPUs, …​) edit the Vagrantfile.

• For all other settings, edit the vars-section at the top of playbook.yaml.

License

The contents of this repository are placed in the public domain using the Unlicense (software) and the CC0-1.0-license (documentation), as indicated by the SPDX short-form identifiers at the top of each file. Find the license texts in ./LICENSES.

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1. This is just my personal observation. The sample size is insufficient for drawing reliable conclusions.