@Mechah: Thanks for following up!
I coul not even run the classifier steps from the moving pictures tutorial, not to mention working on my own data sets...
Can you provide a bit more detail about this? One of the final testing steps when creating the VirtualBox image is to run through the Moving Pictures tutorial, in whole (including q2-feature-classifier). We have not observed (yet) a situation that causes this to fail, so any additional context would be helpful (what version VirtualBox are you running on your host? how much RAM have you allocated for the vm? what is the error message are you seeing?).
By the way I could not install the Shared_Folder as in prior QIIME VB image versions - could this be integrated as well in upcoming VB image versions?
The steps for sharing between your host machine and your VM are generally the same as with the QIIME 1 VMs - I suggest you take a look at the official VirtualBox manual for guidance. Generally speaking, first you need to install the Guest Additions, then you can configure a Shared Folder. You also need to make sure the QIIME 2 user is a member of the group vboxsf:
$ sudo usermod -aG vboxsf qiime2
More generally, as we mentioned in the original distributions announcement post, we are unsure as to how much longer we will provide VirtualBox images. Unless you are on a Windows machine, we strongly encourage that you perform a native install of QIIME 2 (we don't currently support native installs on Windows, but we hope to change that in the future). If you decide to attempt a native install, feel free to ask any questions along the way, we are here to help!
Thanks for all your efforts, I'm excited to play around with the new functionalities of QIIME 2 in the near future...
Thanks! We are excited too!