\section install_sec Installation \subsection step1 Step 1: CMake Download and install CMake. If you have Windows OS oder X-Windows for Linux/Unix start cmake-gui. If you work in terminal start ccmake. \subsection step2 Step 2: project configuration You need set a path for VirtualFluids source code. It is allays source directory at the end of path. E.g. c:/vf/source. You need also set a path to build binaries. If you click Configure button start a project wizard and you can choose a compiler. Set Grouped and Advanced check boxes in CMake. In the group USE you have follow important options: \li USE_BOND - using an agent based communication framework for fault tolerance BOND \li USE_METIS - using a domain decomposition tool METIS \li USE_MPI - using MPI for distributed memory parallelization \li USE_YAML - using YAML \li USE_ZOLTAN - using domain decomposition tool ZOLTAN There are externals library and you need additionally compile them. \subsection step3 Step 4: project compilation Compile you project with suitable compiler.