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Virtualization in Operating Systems

This document describes an experiment on virtualization. The objectives are to introduce virtualization and virtual machines. Students should be able to explain virtualization, use virtualization software, and run multiple operating systems on one computer. Virtualization allows a single computer to run multiple guest operating systems at once by dividing resources virtually rather than physically partitioning the hard disk. Students will download and install VirtualBox to create virtual machines and install guest operating systems like Ubuntu to share files between systems virtually.

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Virtualization in Operating Systems

This document describes an experiment on virtualization. The objectives are to introduce virtualization and virtual machines. Students should be able to explain virtualization, use virtualization software, and run multiple operating systems on one computer. Virtualization allows a single computer to run multiple guest operating systems at once by dividing resources virtually rather than physically partitioning the hard disk. Students will download and install VirtualBox to create virtual machines and install guest operating systems like Ubuntu to share files between systems virtually.

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Experiment No.

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VIRTUALIZATION   

1. Objective(s):   
The activity aims to introduce virtualization as applied to operating systems.

2. Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs):  


The students should be able to:
2.1 explain the concept of virtualization and virtual machines.
2.2 use a virtualization software.
2.3 use multiple operating systems in a single computer.
3. Discussion (not more than 300 words):   
Virtualization is a concept where a single computer is empowered to host multiple operating systems
regardless of the platform.

In order that multiple operating systems can be installed in a single computer, one has to divide the hard
disk into several partitions to store the operating system. However, only one OS can be active at one
time. Thus; making it impossible to shared files and folders between each OS. Likewise, there is risk that
other partitions may be deleted or erased during the process.

In addition, before the introduction of virtualization, a computer is under-utilized despite the high
specifications. The figure below is the task manager showing the graph of the utilization of the CPU and
the memory. The picture shows that the cpu is 11% utilized and only 1.58GB of memory is used.

The picture below shows the task manager of a computer installed with Ubuntu server, the guest
operating system, where a version control program imports from a Subversion server and files are
copied to another workstation.
Various virtualization software are available for commercial and non-commercial use such as VirtualBox,
VMware and others.

A virtual machine is created after installing the virtualization software in the host computer, which could
be running in any operating system such as MS Windows, Linux or MAC. Then the guests operating
systems are created within the virtualization software.

A personal computer with MS Windows operating system (or any operating system)

4. Resources:   
The students shall be able to:
4.1 A personal computer with installed operating system
4.2 Internet connection (recommended but not required)
4.3 VirtualBox (latest version)

5. Procedure:   

5.1 Download the latest version of VirtualBox (if not available yet) from the official website
(https://www.virtualbox.org).
5.2 Run the downloaded file from the location where the software is downloaded

5.3 Follow the instructions to install the software


5.4 Choose the features and the location where to install the software.

5.5 Select the way you want features to be installed

5.6 Install network interfaces


5.7 Ready to install, just click on the 'Install' button

5.8 Wait for the wizard to install device

5.9 Install device software

5.10 Resume installation of device software


5.11 Almost about to finish the installation of the software

5.12 Installation is complete. Virtual box is ready to be installed with a guest operating system

5.13 Virtual box showing guest operating systems. Guest operating systems which can be created
within Virtual box, are loaded on top of the host operating system. Guests operate much the same
way as they do when installed as independent operating system in a single computer.

Course: Experiment No.:   


Group No.: Section:   
Group Members: Date Performed:   
Date Submitted:   
Instructor:   
   
6. Data and Results:   

7. Conclusion:   

8. Assessment (Rubric for Laboratory Performance):  

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