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Accessing the VM
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#. Login to the bioexcel portal at `https://bioexcel.ebi.ac.uk/ <https://bioexcel.ebi.ac.uk/>`_ if you have not already.
#. Click on **Deployments** at the top.
#. You should see a list of all your deployed VMs (Virtual Machines). Click on the button that begins **CWL VM enviroment for** (the last part will be a unique ID for the machine you deployed.
#. Under **outputs** you should see a variable lablled **external_ip**, you will need this to log in to the VM.
#. Below this is a variable labelled **ssh_command**, this is what you will need to type into a terminal or SSH client to access your VM, it should have a value similar to ``ssh ubuntu@45.86.170.4``. The IP address (the numbers) might be different to this example, this is fine as they should be unique.
#. Run that command from your Terminal (or Git Bash in Windows). If you have secured your key with a passphrase, you will be asked for it. Please, provide it.

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#. If you managed to log in to the VM successfully, you will see sth like that:

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Validate the VM works
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Now you will only check, if CWL is properly installed in the VM.

1. In the terminal of you VM type: cd workflow
2. And then run the test workflow using cwltool, by running a command: ``cwltool hashsplitter-workflow.cwl --input resources/test.txt``
3. You should see something like this:

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4. Disconnect from the VM by pressing ``CTRL-D``