Transcript Lab Project: Part 1

Virtual Machines
Virtual Machines
 A virtual machine takes the layered approach to its logical
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conclusion. It treats hardware and the operating system kernel
as though they were all hardware
A virtual machine provides an interface identical to the
underlying bare hardware
The operating system host creates the illusion that a process
has its own processor and (virtual memory)
Each guest provided with a (virtual) copy of underlying
computer
The guess process is in fact an OS, and is how a single physical
machine can run multiple OS concurrently, each in its own VM.
Virtual Machines History and Benefits
 First appeared commercially in IBM mainframes in 1972
 Fundamentally, multiple execution environments (different operating systems)
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can share the same hardware
Protect from each other
Some sharing of file can be permitted, controlled
Commutate with each other, other physical systems via networking
Useful for development, testing
Consolidation of many low-resource use systems onto fewer busier systems
“Open Virtual Machine Format”, standard format of virtual machines, allows a
VM to run within many different virtual machine (host) platforms
Virtual Machines (Cont)
Non-virtual Machine
Virtual Machine
(a) Nonvirtual machine (b) virtual machine
VMware Architecture
Lab Project: Part 1
DOWNLOADING AND INSTALLING VMWARE
AND DOWNLOADING UBUNTU LINUX
(a) downloading the virtualization software from
VMware on your computer
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Download VMware on your computer.
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For PC’s, download and install the trial version of VMware
Workstation.
 Go to http://www.vmware.com/products/workstation/
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For Mac’s download and install the trial version of VMware Fusion.
 http://www.vmware.com/products/fusion/
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Click on the TRY FOR FREE button.
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Click on the Download Now button to download the software.
(b) installing it and (c) also downloading
Ubuntu Linux
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Install VMware on your computer.
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Don’t create a new virtual machine yet.
Download Ubuntu’s Linux distribution.
Go to: http://releases.ubuntu.com/14.04/ubuntu-14.04.3desktop-i386.iso
 You will be asked to save this file on your computer.
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Part 2: Creating a new virtual machine and installing Ubuntu
Linux on it; Testing the new virtual machine
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Before your lab session of week #14, you should be done with
part 1.
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During the lab, you will be given the instructions of part 2 and
you will do it during the lab.