Docker image and container setup

We have provided a Docker image that has all the tools we will be using pre-installed. If you are unfamilar with Docker/containers, there are many online tutorials available (e.g. here). Essentially Docker provides a lightweight “virtual” environment, permitting you to run different architectures/operating systems and libraries/platform environments on a machine. You will need to install Docker on your system.

The standard Dockerfile we will use is the following. Please feel free to customize as you see fit!

FROM rajitmanohar/act_sky130:latest

USER root
RUN apt-get update
RUN apt-get -y install tightvncserver ssh vim emacs awesome gnuplot xterm
RUN echo root:rootpass | chpasswd && echo user:userpass | chpasswd

USER root

CMD service ssh start ; while true ; do sleep 3600; done;