MCnet BSM Tutorial
Held by the
MCnet collaboration
at
MC4BSM 2015.
Prerequisites
This tutorial uses a virtual machine. Please install
Oracle Virtual Box
on your personal computer prior to the tutorial. Due to time constraints
we cannot assist you with setting up software during the tutorial itself.
If you have questions regarding installation, please ask them beforehand.
Download
The virtual machine disk can be downloaded from
here.
Unarchive the disk using 7-Zip. If 7-Zip is missing on your Linux system,
install the package
p7zip. On Windows, download the executable
from
here. On MacOS, use the
unarchiver.
Creating the Virtual Machine
Create a new machine with VirtualBox using the GUI.
In the first step, VirtualBox will ask for the name of the machine
and its OS. For the latter choose
Linux -> Ubuntu (32 bit).
In the next step, set the size of the memory. About 1GB should be fine.
In the last step, select the virtual disk. Choose 'Use an existing virtual
hard drive file' and open the *.vdi file you just downloaded and extracted.
Before starting the virtual machine, enter its settings and increase
the video RAM size to at least 48MB (
Settings -> Display -> Video).
If you have more than two processor cores on your host system,
allow the VM to use two cores (
Settings -> System -> Processor).
You must enable hardware virtualization in your BIOS to do this!
Starting the Virtual Machine
We are booting a lightweight Linux, which you can customize.
The login name is student,
the password is 2015.
The keyboard layout can be set using the layout switcher in the task bar,
or by running
setxkbmap LC in the terminal, where
LC is
your language code (us, de,...).
Common tools which are installed include
xterm,
lxterminal,
vi,
emacs,
gv,
evince and
firefox.
If you need root privileges to install further programs of your choice, use
sudo.
Note that the package information has been purged, and you need to run
sudo aptitude update before any other command.
Running the tutorial
Instructions for the tutorial are found
here
and in the
~/tutorial/ folder of the virtual machine.