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VirtualBox Installation For Virtual Labs

1. Introduction 2
2. Motivation and Audience 2
3. System requirement 3
4. Downloading and Installing VirtualBox in your OS 3
a. Installation steps for Windows 3
b. Installation steps for CentOS 5
c. Installation steps for Ubuntu 6
d. Installation steps for Mac OS 6
5. Importing Virtual Labs OS Image to VirtualBox 6
6. Recommended Settings for the Imported VirtualBox 9
7. Running Virtual Labs Simulation in VirtualBox 11
8. Conclusion 11

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VirtualBox Installation for Virtual Labs

1. Introduction
Virtual Labs is an MHRD initiative, Govt of India, which aims at making the
experiments done in Engineering Colleges available in a Virtual form, to all the
college students as an adjunct facility to the physical labs. These labs provide an
opportunity to the students to perform these simulated experiments, read the
theory and improve their understanding of the subject.

There are 1800+ Virtual Experiments bundled in 180 + labs spread across 9
domains available for the users of Virtual Labs. Some of these labs have
software dependencies such as Java, Icedtea plugin, Adobe Flash and Java3D to
run the simulations. For the convenience of the users, Virtual Labs offers a free
download of a customized VirtualBox with all software dependencies installed.

2. Motivation and Audience


The motivation of this document is to detail the steps to download and run the
simulated experiments of Virtual Labs on VirtualBox. VirtualBox is a
Virtualization Software. It means that you can create and run multiple Virtual
Machines, running different operating systems, on the same computer at the
same time. For example, you can run Windows and Linux on your Mac, or run
Windows on your Linux systems. This document is for the consumption of all
the users of Virtual Labs.

3. System requirement
1. Operating Systems ( OS ) - Any OS that supports Oracle VirtualBox. The
machine should have provision to support virtualization technology
2. Memory : 4 GB RAM
3. Processor : Any recent Intel or AMD processor

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4. Downloading and Installing VirtualBox in your OS
The following subsections list the steps to download and install
VirtualBoxbased on the operating system of your machine -
a. Installation steps for Windows
b. Installation steps for CentOS
c. Installation steps for Ubuntu
d. Installation steps for Mac OS

a. Installation steps for Windows


1. Download VirtualBox from the link
2. Click on Windows hosts and click on ok to download the file. .exe
file is downloaded
3. Double click on the .exe file and run the setup of VirtualBox
4. Click on the Run button

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5. Click on Next button and follow the instructions to complete the
installation
6. After the installation, Click on Finish to complete the installation

7. After installation, ensure that a VirtualBox icon is created on the


desktop
8. Steps to import custom Ubuntu Image

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b. Installation steps for CentOS
1. Open Terminal (ctrl+alt+t)
2. Download RPM package with the below command:
Wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/5.1.6/VirtualBox-5.1-
5.1.6_110634_el6-1.x86_64.rpm
3. Install VirtualBox with the below command:
sudo rpm -i VirtualBox-5.1-5.1.6_110634_el6-1.x86_64.rpm
4. To ensure VirtualBox installation Type the below command: in the
terminal:
Virtualbox -V
5. Steps to import custom Ubuntu Image

c. Installation steps for Ubuntu


1. Open Terminal (ctrl+alt+t)
2. Type below command to download VirtualBox:
wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/5.2.0/virtualbox-5.2_5.2.0-
118431~Ubuntu~trusty_amd64.deb
3. Install VirtualBox with the below command:
sudo dpkg -i virtualbox-5.2_5.2.0-
1a18431~Ubuntu~trusty_amd64.deb
4. To ensure VirtualBox installation Type the below command: in the
terminal:
Virtualbox -V
5. Steps to import custom Ubuntu Image

d. Installation steps for Mac OS


1. Download VirtualBox from the link and click on OS X hosts and
save the file
2. Double click on downloaded file .dmg
3. Follow the instructions and install it

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4. Steps to import custom Ubuntu Image

5. Importing Virtual Labs OS Image to VirtualBox


Steps to import Ubuntu ( .ova file )in VirtualBox :
Note : The import steps need to be done only once
1. Click on the link to download the Ubuntu OS image file and save the
ubuntu-14.04-college-cloud.ova in your machine
2. Click on the VirtualBox Icon to open
3. Click on File on the top left corner of the screen and select Import
Appliances
4. Application to import window will pop up

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5. Browse the downloaded file by clicking on the browse button
6. Click on the selected file and click on Open

7. Click on import to start the import setup


8. Click on next to start importing the downloaded file

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9. The importing process looks as below:

10. This may take 5 to 10 minutes to complete the import process.


11. After the completion of importing, you can find the ubuntu-
virtualbox in the VirtualBox window on the left side menu.
12. Double click on the Ubuntu-14.04-college-cloud
13. You can find the Ubuntu OS, it prompts to enter a password
14. Password for the OS is “cc”

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NOTE:

Select the ubuntu-14.04-college-cloud from the VirtualBox window and


allocate the Processor and Memory/RAM size from the Settings menu
appropriately based on the system configuration of the user machine.

6. Recommended Settings for the Imported VirtualBox

● Processor --> Single


● Memory/RAM size --> 2GB or 4GB according to your RAM Size

● Please change the network setting in your Virtualization software for the
imported image from Bridge adapter to Nat

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● Do not update or upgrade any application in it.

7. Running Virtual Labs Simulation in VirtualBox


1. Open Virtualbox.
2. Click on Ubuntu-14.04-college-cloud from the left menu bar.
3. Enter password *cc*
4. Open Firefox (web browser) and type http://vlab.co.in/
5. Scroll the page down to Participating Institutes and click on IIITH logo or
click on the link
6. Choose any lab that you would like to perform
7. Introduction page is loaded. Now click on List of Experiments
8. Click on any of the Experiment
9. Select any Experiment and click on Simulation/Experiment in the side
menu bar to perform the experiment
10.Once you are done performing the experiment you can test your learnings
in the Quizzes section
11.Following the above steps, you can explore any number of labs and
experiments of Virtual Labs

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8. Conclusion
This document has captured the steps for the download, installation and use
of Virtual Box (with all software dependencies installed ) to facilitate easy use
of Virtual Labs. Any queries regarding the use of this document can be
addressed to [email protected].

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