Operating Systems Week 1 Assignment

Virtual Machine

For this assignment you will be taking a tour of the Linux Operating System. You will be creating a Linux Virtual Machine on your computer. You can choose any Virtual Machine Software and any version of Linux you wish to run.

If you are completely new to these concepts, I recommend using Virtual Box as your Virtual Host Software and Ubuntu Linux as your Linux Virtual Machine. For your convenience, I have included a step by step tutorial.

Overview:

A virtual Machine allows you to run an operating system from within an application. i.e. traditionally, a single computer runs a single operating system. Virtual Machines allow a host operating system such as Windows, to run additional Operating systems as if they are applications. i.e.

We can launch Ubuntu Linux as if it were any other application within our Windows Environment. A new window is displayed which contains the Linux Operating Environment. This Virtualization allows a single piece of hardware to run multiple operating systems while sharing resources (CPU, Memory, Disk) between them.

Your Task:

Install virtualization software of your choice. If you do not already have a favorite, the recommended package is virtual box. This is a free software download. 

Once your virtualization software is installed, you are required to install a Linux virtual machine image. If you are new to this concept, the recommended Virtual Machine image is Ubuntu Linux Desktop. 

Alternatively, you have a whole host of additional options including:

         Debian

         SUSE

         Fedora

You can find pre-built Virtual Machine Images all over the place online and you are welcome to use any image you wish. Optionally experiment installing multiple VMs to compare performance and interface characteristics.

Once you are up and running Linux like a pro, you need to become familiar with the Terminal. This is the interface to the guts of the operating system and we will use the terminal extensively throughout the remainder of the course.

Submission Requirements:

Word Document or Libre Writer document which contains responses to the following:

1. Characteristics of your Host Operating System (i.e. your computer as is) including Machine Type, Amount of Memory, Speed of CPU, Operating System, 32 or 64 bit, Hard Disk total size and available free space.

2. Virtualization Software Package you chose to use and experiences, troubles, thoughts regarding the installation and configuration.

3. Linux Virtual Machine you chose to install and experiences, troubles, thoughts regarding the installation and configuration.

4. Screen shot of your Linux Desktop running as a virtual machine. The screenshot should show your Linux VM running as a window with the Host Operating System visible in the background. The Linux Window should have a terminal open which displays the current version of the operating system. (command is uname a) See sample screenshot below:

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