CIS 225 - Virtual Machines & OS Installation

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CIS 225

Virtual Machines & OS Installation

Virtualization

Using software to emulate hardware functions
Run multiple operating systems on a single host computer
Migrate systems between hardware setups

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Image Source: VMWare

Image Source: VMWare

Image Source: VMWare

Old & Busted

One operating system per server
One server per application
Storage per-server
Lots of servers
Redundancy is difficult

New Hotness

Many operating systems on a single physical server
One virtual machine per application
Shared, virtual storage pools
Fewer physical servers
Easy redundancy

VMWare Workstation

Other Virtual Machines

Oracle VirtualBox
Hyper-V
KVM & Qemu
Parallels
Virtual PC
Xen

Cloud Providers

Digital Ocean
Azure
AWS (Amazon Web Services)
OpenStack
Rackspace
Linode

Operating Systems

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Architecture

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Kernel

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OS Components

Graphical User Interface (GUI)
- Run program
- Manage system settings
- Interact wtih devices
Command Line Interface (CLI)
Program Management

Installation

Partition the disk
Copy installation files
Extract & install
Configure basic settings
Reboot

Drivers

Reading

See Class Website:

http://people.cis.ksu.edu/~russfeld/cis225fall2016/

Assignments

Lab 1 - Computer Hardware:
Due 9/2 11:30 AM Before Lecture!!
Lab 2 - Virtualization, OS Install & Config
Due 9/12 11:30 AM Before Lecture!!