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Installing QIIME 2 using a Virtual Machine

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This site has been replaced by the new QIIME 2 “amplicon distribution” documentation, as of the 2025.4 release of QIIME 2. You can still access the content from the “old docs” here for the QIIME 2 2024.10 and earlier releases, but we recommend that you transition to the new documentation at https://amplicon-docs.qiime2.org. Content on this site is no longer updated and may be out of date.

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QIIME 2 Distribution builds are available as Docker Images. See QIIME 2 2024.10 distributions for more details about the available distributions.

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As of the QIIME 2 2022.8 release, we will no longer be releasing AWS or VirtualBox builds, due to the fact that our release of these builds restricts users to a specific operating system/cloud platform/etc. We feel that we are better serving our user community by providing cross-platform builds (e.g. Docker containers) and detailed instructions on how to work with them.