COMP 3000 Lab 2 2011

Part A (Mandatory)

This part is to be completed in class.

1. Copy the ISO images from the class DVD to your computer. Boot at least two of the ISOs in Virtualbox or VMware Player by creating a new virtual machine and using the ISO for the virtual CD drive. For at least two distributions:
   1. Roughly how long did the VM take to boot completely?
   2. How similar is the environment to that available on the Lambda SCS hosts?
2. Create an account on the class wiki. What username did you choose?

Part B (Optional)

The following exercises are optional.

1. Run benchmarks in the guest and host OSs such as lmbench for Linux.
   • Tip: phoronix-test-suite, rambench, cpuburn, bashmark, forkbomb
2. Enable support for flash and non-free codecs in Ubuntu.
3. Create an Ubuntu virtual machine in VMWare Player. How does the performance of VMWare and VirtualBox compare?
4. Can you run VirtualBox in the Ubuntu guest? Note that VirtualBox is part of the Ubuntu distribution already.
5. Setup shared folders between the guest and host and verify that you can copy files both ways. What does the shared folder look like to Ubuntu?