Hi all,<br><br>I would like to set up Galaxy locally. At the moment, I&#39;m just trying to use it on my desktop (a Mac, OSX 10.6.7), but later we will want a local server to play with.<br><br>Rather than install galaxy and then install all the tools it can use (and deal with OSX issues for some of them), it seems simpler just to use a virtual machine, since there are images which get regularly updated and come with pretty much everything. Is there anything wrong with this approach?<br>


<br>I know there are Amazon EC2 images for Galaxy. So far as I know there are not other kinds of images? So for using it on my desktop, I think my options are either to run an EC2-compatible system locally, or to try to convert the AMI to a VMWare or VirtualBox image. I was just wondering if anyone has already tried either of these approaches?<br>


<br>Also, is it possible to get hold of the galaxy AMI files themselves?<br><br>Any advice welcome! <br><br>Thanks,<br>Clare<br><br><br>