Portable unprivileged Neurodesktop

Minimum system requirements

At least 5GB free space for Neurodesktop base image
At least 8GB of RAM

Downloading TinyRange

TinyRange is a lightweight runtime for running virtual machines and containers. It runs without admin privileges and doesn’t need Docker or Podman installed to work.

Download the latest version of TinyRange from the TinyRange releases page.

Installing TinyRange

Unzip the archive to some local path on your computer. It’s recommended not to extract it to a network drive.
Open a terminal in the extracted archive and run ./tinyrange login or tinyrange login on Windows.
Once you see the tinyrange:~# prompt, type exit.

Enabling hardware acceleration

Windows: This might require admin privileges in some cases. Search in your start menu for “Turn Windows features on or off”. Find “Hyper-V Hypervisor” or “Windows Hypervisor Platform” and make sure it’s enabled. Alternatively, run dism /online /enable-feature /featurename:"HypervisorPlatform" in an Administrator shell. Then restart your computer. To test if it’s working correctly run: tinyrange.exe env check-hv
Ubuntu / other Linux: It should already work out of the box. If not, make sure your user account has permission to read/write /dev/kvm.
macOS: No extra steps required. It already works.