oTree Virtual Machine Manager

oTree Virtual Machine Manager helps to manage user accounts.

• Free software: MIT license
• Documentation: https://otree-virtual-machine-manager.readthedocs.io.

Overview

oTree Virtual Machine Manager is a complement to the oTree Virtual Machine Image provided by Felix Albrecht and Holger Gerhardt.

Since doing research is time-consuming enough, this tool ensures that administrators of an oTree server do not waste their time on creating fully equipped user accounts and similar tedious tasks. Everything breaks down to a single commandline interface.

Managing an oTree server with multiple experiments running parallel has never been easier.

Features

Create users

Creates a fully equipped experimenter account (clear project structure, virtual environment, graphical or point-and-click solutions to many oTree-related commands, samba access).

Back up user

Creates a database and/or home folder backup for users upon account closure so that nothing gets lost.

Remove user

Removes otree-server user accounts.

Reroutes user

Depending on the network it might be necessary to assign the main port to a different user.

Behind the scenes

Handles port configuration for multiple parallel user accounts on a single virtual host.

Tutorials

You can find a series of tutorial videos on Youtube.

For administrators

• Installation of ovmm
• Adding a user account with ovmm
• Restoring a database

For end users

• Using ovmm as an end user
• Resetting the database and backups as end user

Contributing

Contributions are welcome and they are greatly appreciated! Every little bit helps, and credit will always be given.

Credits

Thanks to all contributors who spent their time on making this project more helpful for everyone.

• Jonas Radbruch (Contributions to the documentation)

This package was created with Cookiecutter and the audreyr/cookiecutter-pypackage project template.