I started using the docker in this repo: https://github.com/iic-jku/iic-osic-tools But I had several problems. I am using Docker desktop on Windows 7. Sometimes, the Docker is stuck in "Starting" and "Stopping". With some Google search, it finally worked with some students, but still failing with others. Another problem is that when the user is inactive for a short period of time, it shows a black screen (in the browser localhost), and you have to stop the container and run it again. Another problem is that the docker takes large part of the C drive (and it keeps eating space). I know these may be minor problems for professionals, but supporting novice students with these problems (and more) is really hard. Any suggestions for making the process smoother are appreciated. @Harald Pretl @Amro Tork

Thanks for your feedback! We appreciate it, to make the usability better for everyone :-) • The “black screen after some time” has been fixed in our latest release. • The Docker image is quite large (4GB in download, but 13GB or so extracted on the disk), which is mainly due to the large PDKs. We have minimized already to some extent, but we want a better solution in the future; not sure yet how to solve this w/o much complexity. If everyone just uses the image tagged

latest

, then at least only one image is stored. • For starting/stopping the Docker the scripts look for a running one, and ask the user to remove or restart. Another solution would be to look for running containers (when a new one is started), and to simply stop it, but some users might not want this behaviour.

Thanks @Harald Pretl Can you open issues on your github repo so we can report problems and suggestions directly there? Also I think it will be nice to include instructions on how to put the container in another drive other than the c:\.

@Hesham Omran Issues and discussions is now enabled in GitHub. Thank you in advance for your feedback!

@Harald Pretl We will add a design manager tool soon that integrate the entire flow.

@Amro Tork I am all ears 🙂 I hope your tool will be open source, and I will definitely take a look.

@Harald Pretl Will be open-source, stay tuned.