CST8217 - Lab Exercise 7

VM Cloning and setup

You need to make two clones of your virtual machine. Rather than going through the complete creation and installation process twice more, you can use the cloning facility of VMware Workstation.

Power off your Linux-1 virtual machine. Under the VM tab of VMware Workstation, click on the Clone item. You want a full clone in the current state. Name your first copy Linux-2 and the second Linux-1.

You will need to configure the network on each virtual machine. Boot each in turn and launch the Network Device Control application (in KDE it's under Internet; in Gnome, look under Administration Tools). Your interface should already be selected under the Devices tab (usually either eth0 or eth1). Click on Edit.

On the General tab, enable "Activate device when computer starts". Click on the radio button for "Statically set IP address" (the other choice is DHCP, which we are not using this semester).

Enter ('x' represents the machine number, 1, 2, or 3):

Oddly enough, when I later booted each of my machines for some testing, the IP addresses had changed (and possibly eth0s became eth1s; I can't remember for sure). As long as the addresses are in the 192.168 range and will not conflict with any IP addresses on your home and/or laptop networks, that's OK (mine became 192.168.64.129, 130, and 131; weird!).

Click OK when this is complete. On the DNS tab, enter the correct hostname: userid-x.example.net (leave all the DNS entries blank; we won't use DNS this semester). Now you can Save your changes and Quit.