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DICT 052 Windows Operating System Concepts Lecture one : Introducing Virtualization and working with ISO images

Lecturer: Tembo Oliver Phone: 0781627117 Email: olivertmb@gmail.com

Learning Objectives
By the end of this lecture the student will, Understand the concept of virtualization Recognize the benefits of using virtualization Understand ISO images and their uses Comprehend the relationship between virtual machine creation and ISO

Learning Outcomes
By the end of this lecture the student be able to Install VMWare workstation 9 and create a windows 7 virtual machine Use ISO software like UltraISO or PowerISO to Create an ISO image from a CD/DVD Mount an ISO image onto a virtual drive

What is Virtualization?
Allows multiple operating systems to run on the same physical computer at the same time A software environment that emulates a computers hardware and BIOS Virtual machine software creates this environment

Virtual machine a definition

A virtual machine (VM) is a softwarebased emulation of a computer. Virtual machines operate based on the computer architecture and functions of a real or hypothetical computer. Therefore a virtual machine (VM) is a software implementation of a machine (i.e. a computer) that executes programs like a physical machine

Why virtual machines are useful

Multiple OS environments can co-exist on the same computer, in strong isolation from each other Run Windows on Linux (or Mac OS) Consolidate many different workloads/guest OSes on one big machine (server consolidation) We can migrate running virtual machines (VMs) running on one host to another

Disadvantages of VMs

A virtual machine is less efficient than a real machine when it accesses the hardware indirectly When multiple VMs are concurrently running on the same physical host, each VM may exhibit a varying and unstable performance (speed of execution, and not results), which highly depends on the workload imposed on the system by other VMs, unless proper techniques are used for temporal isolation among virtual machines.

Virtual machine software

Virtual machine software provides the ability to create virtual machines In this presentation, I will discuss:

VMware Workstation version 9

Other products not discussed

Parallels (Mac) and VMware Fusion (Mac), VirtualBox (open source) Microsoft Virtual PC, Microsoft Hyper-V, VMware Vsphere, ESX

Virtual Machine terminology

Host machine or host computer

The computer on which the virtual machine software is installed (Virtual PC or VMWare, e.g.)

Virtual machine (VM) or Guest OS

The operating system that runs in virtual machine software on the host computer Comprised primarily of a configuration file and one or more virtual hard drive files

Virtual Machine terminology (cont.)

Virtual disk
One or more files that reside on the host computer that make up the VMs hard disk

Virtual network
The network configuration used by the VM Options include: bridged, host only, NAT and none VMs behave like just another computer on the network

Virtual Machine terminology (cont.)

Snapshot
A partial copy of a VM at a particular moment in time. Allows you to go back to the VM at that particular state. Some programs allow saving multiple snapshots.

Benefits

Teach multiple operating systems with a single host computer

Students can own their VM while having minimal access to the host computer Multiple VMs can run simultaneously on one host, networked and all (for example, a client and a server or two servers)

Benefits

Easy maintenance and testing

VM wont boot or got deleted or corrupted? Copy another one. Snapshots allow unlimited try this scenarios with a quick return to the system state before you tried it.

Benefits

Run multiple versions of software

Teach Office 2007 while previewing Office 20xx by using two different VMs. For programming and database; write an application in one version and easily test on another version

Virtualization requirements

Supported host operating systems (Windows XP Pro, Vista,7,8, Server 2003/2008, Linux) Sufficient RAM on your host computer to accommodate the host OS and the guest OSs you wish to run Sufficient CPU power Sufficient hard drive space to accommodate the stored VMs

Installing VMware Workstation 9

Note: To install Workstation on a Windows 7 host computer, you must log on as administrator. If you are installing from a CD, put your CD in your CD-ROM drive, it will begin automatically. If you are installing from a downloaded file, browse to the directory where you saved the downloaded installer file and run the installer. The file name is similar with this: VMware-workstation-full-7.1.3324285.exe.

Further notes
I have prepared a tutorial for installing VMware and creating your first virtual machine you can contact your class representative Alternatively you can follow the link below http://www.wikihow.com/Install-VMwareWorkstation-and-Create-a-VirtualMachine-on-Your-PC

Introducing ISO Images

An ISO image is an archive file of an optical disc, a type of disk image composed of the data contents of every written sector of an optical disc, including the optical disc file system ISO image files usually have a file extension of .iso.

Introducing ISO Images (cont.)

An ISO file, often called an ISO image, is a single file, perfect representation of an entire CD, DVD, or BD. The entire contents of a disc can be precisely duplicated in a single ISO file. ISO image files are often used to distribute large programs over the Internet due to the fact that all of the program's files can be neatly contained as a single file - the ISO file.

ISO Images (cont.)

The name ISO is taken from the ISO 9660 file system used with CD-ROM media, but what is known as an ISO image might also contain a UDF (ISO/IEC 13346) file system (commonly used by DVDs and Blu-ray Discs).

ISO Images (cont.)

ISO images can be created from optical discs by disk imaging software, or from a collection of files by optical disc authoring software, or from a different disk image file by means of conversion Software distributed on bootable discs is often available for download in ISO image format and, like any other ISO image, may be written on, or "burned" to, a CD or DVD with any capable software.

How to create and burn an ISO file

Even Windows 8 and Windows 7 can be purchased directly by Microsoft in ISO format. You can follow this link to read about how to burn and create an ISO file http://pcsupport.about.com/od/toolsofth etrade/ht/burnisofile.htm http://pcsupport.about.com/od/softwaretools/a/create-iso-image-file.htm

Summary
We have looked at Virtual Machines and the ISO file format, these two are going to be partly the basis of our lab sessions and ultimately your practice. It is therefore important that you understand and are comfortable using them

Have a great weekend