Anyone using a virtual machine to run Gempy? Help needed

[lucianomarquetto]

Hi all!

I got to a point where my personal computes is struggling to run the model I developed (kernel keeps restarting when adding more surfaces and series or when trying to set resolution higher than 85, 85, 85. Thus, I decided to create a virtual machine in Oracle Cloud, but I could not use it so far. I created a new conda virtual environment but when I tried to pip install Gempy I got an error on pyqt5 installation.

So my question is, has anyone already tried to use Gempy in a virtual machine, and if so, can you give me some hints on what worked for you? Like what service are you using, how did you set it up, etc. Ideally free stuff, haha!

Talking to a friend he told me this error I'm getting with installing pyqt5 (below) happens because the virtual machine will not work with graphical applications (I could only think of the 3D plotting in Gempy), so I would need a workaround or a different service.

Any help would be appreciated, thanks!

My vm specs are the following:

And the error message I get is the following:

Collecting pyqt5 (from gempy)

Using cached PyQt5-5.15.9.tar.gz (3.2 MB)
Installing build dependencies ... done
Getting requirements to build wheel ... done
Preparing metadata (pyproject.toml) ... error
error: subprocess-exited-with-error

× Preparing metadata (pyproject.toml) did not run successfully.
│ exit code: 1
╰─> [22 lines of output]
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/home/ubuntu/anaconda3/envs/gempy_venv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pyproject_hooks/_in_process/_in_process.py", line 353, in
main()
File "/home/ubuntu/anaconda3/envs/gempy_venv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pyproject_hooks/_in_process/_in_process.py", line 335, in main
json_out['return_val'] = hook(**hook_input['kwargs'])
File "/home/ubuntu/anaconda3/envs/gempy_venv/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pip/_vendor/pyproject_hooks/_in_process/_in_process.py", line 152, in prepare_metadata_for_build_wheel
whl_basename = backend.build_wheel(metadata_directory, config_settings)
File "/tmp/pip-build-env-v1wsye_m/overlay/lib/python3.7/site-packages/sipbuild/api.py", line 47, in build_wheel
arguments=_convert_config_settings(config_settings))
File "/tmp/pip-build-env-v1wsye_m/overlay/lib/python3.7/site-packages/sipbuild/abstract_project.py", line 87, in bootstrap
project.setup(pyproject, tool, tool_description)
File "/tmp/pip-build-env-v1wsye_m/overlay/lib/python3.7/site-packages/sipbuild/project.py", line 586, in setup
self.apply_user_defaults(tool)
File "project.py", line 68, in apply_user_defaults
super().apply_user_defaults(tool)
File "/tmp/pip-build-env-v1wsye_m/overlay/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pyqtbuild/project.py", line 70, in apply_user_defaults
super().apply_user_defaults(tool)
File "/tmp/pip-build-env-v1wsye_m/overlay/lib/python3.7/site-packages/sipbuild/project.py", line 237, in apply_user_defaults
self.builder.apply_user_defaults(tool)
File "/tmp/pip-build-env-v1wsye_m/overlay/lib/python3.7/site-packages/pyqtbuild/builder.py", line 70, in apply_user_defaults
"specify a working qmake or add it to PATH")
sipbuild.pyproject.PyProjectOptionException
[end of output]

note: This error originates from a subprocess, and is likely not a problem with pip.
error: metadata-generation-failed

× Encountered error while generating package metadata.
╰─> See above for output.

note: This is an issue with the package mentioned above, not pip.
hint: See above for details.

[AlexanderJuestel]

@lucianomarquetto I, unfortunately, do not have any experience with that.