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Environment Setup
In this unit, hands-on labs and assignments will be conducted on a dedicated virtual machine image. You are strongly suggested to follow the guidelines to setup your own hands-on environment before doing your assignments and labs. The environment includes the virtual machine software, e.g., VirtualBox and Linux (Ubuntu 16.04), with which you can work on the assignments and labs using your own personal computers. Getting familiar with them is critical.
Virtual Machine Software:
VirtualBox is recommended for the assignment in this unit, which is open-source and completely free. It can be downloaded at https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads. We note that other virtual machine software like VMware Player and Parallels Desktop are also compatible to use.
Go to the download page shown as below and choose the appropriate installation package according to your host operating system:
For MAC users, please select VirtualBox for OS X hosts.
Operating System:
A pre-built Ubuntu 16.04 virtual machine image (SEEDUbuntu-16.04-32bit.zip: 3.2 GB) can be downloaded from google drive at https://drive.google.com/file/d/1HxdUhq-J_- _QKyjngpH9m6Kmuvy0_68a/view?usp=sharing.
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Most of the necessary tools, software, and libraries for the hands-on assignments have been installed in this pre-built VM image. They are ¡°libnet1, libnet1-dev, libpcat-dev, libpcap-dev, libattr1-dev, vim, apache2, php5, libapache2-mod-php5, mysql-server, wireshark, bind9, nmap, netwox/netwag, openjdk-6-jdk, snort, xpdf, vsftpd, telnetd, zsh, ssh, dpkg-dev, openssl.¡±
User Manual of the Pre-built Ubuntu 16.04 VM:
We use a MAC as the setup example. You can host the Ubuntu image using VirtualBox
by performing the following steps:
1. Install VirtualBox player using the downloaded installer.
2. Lunch VirtualBox player.
3. Extract the Ubuntu image from the .zip file to your hard drive.
4. Launch the Ubuntu image from VirtualBox by clicking ¡°New¡±:
You should see a screen similar to the following:
Name the VM, select the type as Linux and then continue. Default memory 1024MB RAM is enough.
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Select the extracted Ubuntu image ¡°SEEDUbuntu16.04.vmdk¡±:
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Now, click the ¡°start¡± button:
Now, the login screen of Ubuntu should appear.
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Login using the following account User name: seed
Password: dees
[The root password is: seedubuntu]
Click the ¡°Dash Home¡± icon on the left corner and search ¡°Terminal¡± to open a command prompt window. All of the commands mentioned in the assignments will be typed (or copied) into this command prompt.
Please ignore and cancel all the OS update popped up to make sure the compatibility of installed libraries and tools in our assignments.
Creating a shared folder between your host machine and Ubuntu virtual machine in VirtualBox
Accessing your host machine¡¯s files from Ubuntu VM is useful when you already have existing applications/ programming files and want to run them on the virtual machine.
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Following example presents how to create the share folder between Mac OS as a host machine and Seed Ubuntu virtual machine. If you are using other host operating system, the instruction should be the same.
1. Create ¡°sharedFolder¡± folder in your host machine and put your applications/ files into the folder. For testing purpose, you can simply create ¡°hello.txt¡± text file in the folder.
2. Mounting the folder to your Ubuntu VM.
3. Then select the ¡°Shared Folders¡± and click on ¡°Add a new Shared¡±
4. Then point to your ¡°sharedFolder¡± folder created in Step 1.
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5. Then check on ¡°Auto-mount¡± then click Ok.
6. Add current user ¡°seed¡± to the shared group of the virtual machine.
¡ñ Start your Ubuntu VM and login with user ¡°seed¡± and password ¡°dees¡±
¡ñ Click ¡°Dash Home¡± icon on the left corner and search ¡°Terminal¡±
¡ñ In the terminal window, type
sudo adduser seed vboxsf
then confirm the password with ¡°dees¡±
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7. Reboot your Ubuntu VM. This step is important to make setting changes
8. Then you can see the shared folder from Home Folder>Computer>media
Reference Links:
Commonly used unix commands: http://infohost.nmt.edu/tcc/help/unix/unix_cmd.html *Please direct your questions to our tutors.
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