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1. History This document uses ISO 8601 international standard for time information YYYY MM DD and 24 hours HH MM SS as applicable Date User Notes 2012 01 20 JS First release for review started 2011 12 18 Sun 2012 05 26 JS Started cleanups of language content 2012 10 20 JS Second release for review Johan Sarkinen Page 19 of 19 2012 10 20 COMGT C 2012 COMGT LLC www comgt com info comsgt com European Partner2. Hypervisors 7 Hypervisors For our purposes hosted desktop virtualization and with capability to run our most common desktop operating systems both on host OS and as guest OSs there are three major manufacturers of hypervisors 1 Parallels started for Mac but has ventured into also Windows and Linux 2 VMware among the biggest player in the industry of virtualization for both desktop and servers 3 VirtualBox owned by Oracle free and open source software FOSS GPL license more in 8 4 GPL and Other Open Source Licenses pg 11 Table 1 summarizes hypervisors for desktop virtualization based on host operating system Table 1 Hypervisors from VirtualBox VMware and Parallels Host OS Mac OS X MS Windows Linux Free VirtualBox VirtualBox VirtualBox e VMware Player For pay e Parallels Desktop Parallels Desktop Parallels Desktop free trial e VMware Fusion e VMware e VMware free trial Workstation Workstation See also http comgt com virtual ProductsHypervisors for more on products including links to where to buy and or download 7 1 Which to Choose For Mac users strongly recommend spending to buy either Parallels Desktop or VMware Fusion The free VirtualBox VB is of course not a bad alternative especially for the cost continuous individuals e g students but VB also requires more work to use
3. Personal skills Know how to install software Internet Access A decent speed broadband connection or it can take days to download certain appliances Hardware A reasonably modern computer with at least a couple of gigabyte of RAM memory and some 20 50 GB of free hard disk space See also Appendix A System Requirements on page 15 You must have administrative privileges to install software Software At a minimum more in section 11 1 Preparations pg 14 1 Hypervisor more in chapter 7 on next page 2 Possibly a separate license for operating system if creating VM with Windows or Mac OS X more in chapter 8 Licenses on page 11 6 1 32 or 64 bit Versions of Operating Systems For Host OS 64 bit for ability to use more than 4 GB of memory My personal preferences are Mac OS X for Mac based systems and Windows XP 64 bit for Windows based systems Note that prefer XP to Windows 7 as XP is good enough and requires far less resources of the host which means more resources available to guest operating systems For Guest OS s 32 bit for most desktop use applications you won t allocate too much memory to individual VMs anyway Learn more on 32 vs 64 bit at http www techsupportalert com content 32 bit and 64 bit explained htm Johan Sarkinen Page 7 of 19 2012 10 20 COMGT C 2012 COMGT LLC www comgt com info comsgt com European Partner Introduction to Desktop Virtualization 7
4. a hypervisor Some Linux distributions exist as appliances which makes it much easier to check out a specific distro 9 2 Create Your Own Virtual Machine Appliance This is like installing an operating system on any other computer including installing and configuring applications etc The process is rather simple but outside the scope of this document See instructions for the hypervisor of your choice for more 9 3 Download Ready to Use There are many sources for downloading appliances including sites for specific distros like BackTrack see chapter 10 1 on page 13 The three main vendors of hypervisors also maintain directories for easier finding appliances e Parallels Virtual Appliances Directory parallels com ptn download va 98 appliances per 2011 12 26 and still 98 per 2012 10 20 e VMware Virtual Appliances Marketplace vmware com appliances 938 per 2012 10 20 e VirtualBox Virtual Appliances virtualboximages com 2400 2012 10 20 Number of appliances is only provided as indication and includes many similar variants like different versions of operating systems included applications etc Johan Sarkinen Page 12 of 19 2012 10 20 COMGT C 2012 COMGT LLC www comgt com info comsgt com European Partner Introduction to Desktop Virtualization 10 Two Linux Distros 10 Two Linux Distros As example of a couple of Linux distributions that also exist in form of ready to use downloadable ap
5. 0 128 MIB 1 5 GiB 800 MiB for minimal install 2001 Aug Windows XP_ 64 MiB 1 5 GiB 3 2 GiB for SP2 4 1 GiB for SP3 2001 Sep OS X 10 1 128 MIB 1 5 GiB 2002 May OS X 102 128 MiB No disk space req in W article 2003 Oct OSX103 128MiB 11 5 GiB 2004 Oct Ubuntu4 10 64 MiB 1 GiB With Desktop version Yes 4 10 was the first release of Ubuntu 2005 Apr OSX 10 4 256 MIB 3 GiB 2006 Jun OS X 10 5 512 MiB_ 9 GiB 2006 Nov Vista 512 MiB 20 GiB For Vista Capable 1 GiB 40 GiB for Vista Premium Ready 2008 Apr Ubuntu 8 04 64 MiB 5 GiB Min 512 MiB rec With Desktop 2009 Jul Windows 7 1 GiB 16 GiB 32 bit 64 bit 2 GiB 20 GiB 2009 Aug OSX106 1GiB 5GiB W 2011 Jul OS X 10 7 2 GiB 7 GiB IW 2011 Oct Ubuntu 11 10 384 MIB 5 GB Desktop Server 128 MiB 1 GiB Color coded origin Apple bluish Microsoft pinkish Linux greenish Sources e http en wikipedia org wiki Mac OS X and wikipedia s Mac OS X v10 x for example http en wikipedia org wiki Mac OS X v10 2 http en wikipedia org wiki Windows xp http en wikipedia org wiki Windows Vista http en wikipedia org wiki Windows 7 Ubuntu 4 10 http old releases ubuntu com ubuntu dists warty main installer i386 20040801ubuntu20 doc manual en ch03s04 html e Ubuntu 8 04 https help ubuntu com 8 04 installation guide i386 minimu
6. 1 Appendix A System Requirements Combined Requirements Host and Guest s Running VMs can quickly eat up both RAM and hard disk space especially if running a heavy weigh OS like Windows 7 Table 4 below shows combined requirements for some combinations of more common OSs Table 4 System Requirements Example Configurations Host Mac OS X based MS Windows based Linux based Host OS 10 6 Snow Leopard 10 7 L ion Windows XP 64 bit Windows 7 64 bit Some Linux 64 bit RAM HD RAM HD RAM HD RAM HD RAM HD RAM HD RAM HD 1 GiB 5 GiB 2GiB 7 GiB 2 GiB 7 GiB 1 GiB 15 GiB 1 GiB 15 GiB 2 GiB 20 GiB 1 GB 15 GiB Guest OS Windows XP 32 bit Some Linux 32 bit Windows 7 32 bit Some Linux 32 bit Windows XP Mode Windows XP 32 bit RAM HD RAM HD RAM HD RAM HD RAM HD RAM HD RAM HD 64 MiB 1 5 GiB 64 MiB 1 5 GiB 0 5 GiB 5 GiB 1 GiB 16 GiB 0 5 GiB 5 GiB 1 GiB 15 GiB 64 MiB 1 5 GiB Tot 1 1 GiB 6 5 GiB 2 1 GiB 8 5 GiB 12 GiB 2 5 GiB 31 GiB 2 GiB 1 5 GiB 20 GiB 3 GiB 45 GiB 16 5 GiB 1 1 GiB All host operating systems in 64 bit variant when exist in both 32 and 64 bits 1 http en wikipedia org wiki Mac_OS X Snow Leopard OS X Lion Te
7. 2 6 with the OS Type dropdown Select Next On the Memory panel select Next On the Virtual Hard Disk panel select Existing This opens the VirtualBox Virtual Disk Manager Select the Add button Select the puppy 4 00 k2 6 21 7 seamonkey vdi file that was extracted in the previous steps Click Select Click Next Click Finished Optional Configure VirtualBox General settings to match the site settings No need to create VM 1 Double click on vmx or possibly a vmware file on Mac That s it And the same is applicable for Parallels another hypervisor product simply download appliance and open to run Nor any need to know details otherwise required creating a virtual machine Like e What operating system 32 bit or 64 bit Version of kernel RAM size Disk size Figure 3 Use of VirtualBox vs VMware Player or Parallels Fusion Steps for VirtualBox from http virtualboximages com GettingStarted 2011 12 09 and numbered here instead of bullets For easier counting of how much work with different products Johan Sarkinen COMGT Page 10 of 19 2012 10 20 C 2012 COMGT LLC www comgt com info comsgt com European Partner Introduction to Desktop Virtualization 8 Licenses 8 Licenses For many users this is a boring topic and users often quickly accept any license terms without reading them when installing new software Below are a few notes to at
8. 3 Table 4 System Requirements Example Configurations 16 Table 5 Requirements Operating Systems 2001 2011 ssssssss 17 Johan Sarkinen Page 3 of 19 2012 10 20 COMGT C 2012 COMGT LLC www comgt com info comsgt com European Partner Introduction to Desktop Virtualization 1 Objectives 1 Objectives There are two objectives with this document to introduce general concepts around desktop virtualization 1 and walk the reader through the whole process of getting a virtual machine up and running 2 2 Executive Summary Virtualization is among the hotter topics in information technology today from enabling more energy efficient operations in data centers to enabling advanced capabilities on personal computers Through desktop virtualization a user can easily Run the best applications out there on any desktop computer independently if applications are Mac Windows or Linux based Have a complete network of computers on one single machine for development or test Use specific applications in sandboxes for information security reasons Starting costs are low from zero with the free and open source software FOSS VirtualBox and any reasonably modern and powerful computer will do just fine Everything you need can be downloaded from the Internet 3 About the Author Johan Sarkinen has been working with virtualization and related technolo
9. Introduction to Desktop Virtualization Get Started with Virtual Machines VMs Saturday 2012 10 20 For Review Johan Sarkinen M Sc Computer Science COMGT C 2012 COMGT LLC Introduction to Desktop Virtualization Table of Contents aoa fF WN E 1 wn TA Which to Choose iiis rr cix cedar x aoc Ex RN Dax 7 2 Parallels or VMware eere ene nnnnnnnnnnnnnn 7 3 VMware Player Windows Only eee 7 4 Note on Windows XP Mode ener 7 5 MirtualBOX eerie coronare oe Yn uEveaex vao xa rupe a roe NR YEOcR te 9 Virtual Machines onto Ra apa tacent ceni te 9 1 Linux Distributions Distros vs Appliances 9 2 Create Your Own Virtual Machine Appliance 9 3 Download Readgy to Use cesses 10 Two Linux Distros iioeeeter retenir tones eerte 10 1 BackTrack BT Larger eee 10 2 Damn Small Linux DSL Smaller 11 ProGBTUEFe us ox Dan dx XS Rte ER AFER RV CHE aana a 11 1 Preparations iriure ee 11 2 PrIOCGSS inerte ene centran aaa Davon Ot pa iun Ea EES 11 3 Learn More niente ore cer uka oru ra Dk ura Feo Dh Fu xx o EY ER Ra Goya Raus Appendix A System Requirements A 1 Combined Requirements Host and Guest s A 2 A Little Bit of Histor
10. See 7 5 VirtualBox for more For Windows users easy choice see 7 3 VMware Player Windows Only For Linux users as for Mac spending will save you time There is no shortage of different variants of virtualization products see e g http en wikipedia org wiki Comparison of platform virtual machines Many however are more specialized than the three mentioned above Johan Sarkinen Page 8 of 19 2012 10 20 COMGT C 2012 COMGT LLC www comgt com info comgt com European Partner Introduction to Desktop Virtualization 7 Hypervisors 7 2 Parallels or VMware lve been and am using both Parallels and VMware Fusion on Mac and these are very similar and either one is a good choice For people working in multiple environments VMware has an advantage of easier move of appliances between systems Mac Win and even VMware based servers 7 3 VMware Player Windows Only Windows users have a great choice the VMware Player is free and has become quite capable over the years Early versions only allowed running ready made appliances but since v3 you can also create new machines in Player Note the there are still useful features that are missing in Player Table 2 and professionals should consider the Workstation or Parallels Desktop Table 2 VMware Player vs Workstation Host OS VMware Player v4 VMware Workstation v8 Cost Free VMs host 1 2 10 Sn
11. apshots No Yes Record Replay No Yes Headless operation No Yes Support available No Yes Player v4 and Workstation v8 requires a 64 bit host OS See e g What is the difference between Workstation Player and Server http vmfaq com entry 5 updated 2011 10 03 for more 7 4 Note on Windows XP Mode Windows 7 Pro and higher variants not Home Premium has capability to run a Windows XP Mode This however is a bit cumbersome to setup requires multiple downloads and the only benefit if any is that a license to run XP is included Reasons to stay away of XP Mode include compatibility issues performance and flexibility https google com search q windows 7 xp mode vs vmware for more Johan Sarkinen Page 9 of 19 2012 10 20 COMGT C 2012 COMGT LLC www comgt com info comsgt com European Partner Introduction to Desktop Virtualization T 5 VirtualBox 7 Hypervisors The big advantage with this is of course low initial cost free Though if you value your time you need to consider the extra work with setting up machines Using VirtualBox After downloaded a VDI file Using e g VMware Player free Win After downloaded an appliance Hy wc oND 11 12 13 Create a New Virtual Machine in VirtualBox using the uncompressed VDI file as the Hard Drive Run VirtualBox Click the New button Click Next Enter the name My Puppy Select Linux
12. ase with GPL And you must also make any changes you make available to anyone asking for these This is informally called copyleft compare to copyright requirement Note that there are some FOSS licenses e g LGPL and BSD that do allow safe use in also proprietary settings where you do not want to give up your changes or extensions Johan Sarkinen Page 11 of 19 2012 10 20 COMGT C 2012 COMGT LLC www comgt com info comsgt com European Partner Introduction to Desktop Virtualization 9 Virtual Machines 9 Virtual Machines You have basically two different ways of getting your virtual machines 1 Create your own 2 Get a ready to use virtual machine also known as an appliance 9 1 Linux Distributions Distros vs Appliances Note that a distro is not the same as an appliance per se Linux when discussed in terms of operating systems exist in a rather huge number of flavors e g Android Debian Fedora RedHat SUSE and Ubuntu A distro consists of the Linux kernel core OS in some specific version plus some number of specific applications graphical desktop environment most popular and common are GNOME and KDE and can be slimmed down to run on a small USB stick or to run on a huge IBM mainframe computer See http comgt com lib linux for more on some popular Linux distros An appliance is a ready to use virtual machine including OS and all other files part of a VM which allows this to be executed by
13. chnical Specification http www apple com macosx specs html a System requirements for Windows XP operating system http support microsoft com kb 314865 Microsoft Windows XP 64 bit Edition http technet microsoft com en us library bb457053 aspx Windows 7 system requirements http windows microsoft com en US windows7 products system requirements Linux exist in a multitude of flavors for different use e g desktop server embedded for main frames mobile devices etc but in general is a quite lean operating system with relatively low requirements on both RAM and hard drive space Linux Hardware Requirements 2011 03 03 http www brighthub com computing linux articles 37725 aspx Johan Sarkinen COMGT C 2012 COMGT LLC www comgt com info comsgt com Page 16 of 19 2012 10 20 European Partner Eris tiii 20 Introduction to Desktop Virtualization Appendix A System Requirements A 2 A Little Bit of History It s easy to forget how quickly information technology has evolved and having thoughts like No is that really true Can really run Windows XP on 64 MiB of memory As a brief reminder Table 5 shows minimum requirements for all OSs from Apple and Microsoft plus a few releases of Ubuntu one of the current more popular Linux distributions Table 5 Requirements Operating Systems 2001 2011 Released OS RAM Disk Comments 2001 Mar OS X 10
14. gies e g emulators since the 1980s In the earlier days using emulators in development of embedded monitoring solutions and the first use of personal computer virtualization was Connectix Virtual PC on Mac in the late 1990s Today essentially every personal computer used by Johan Mac or Win includes a hypervisor and a few virtual machines A Linux environment is always useful Johan holds a M Sc in Computer Science he is a Project Management Professional PMP certified by Project Management Institute PMI and is a Senior IEEE Member and a proud member of FBI s InfraGard program 1 Some restrictions may exist depending on licenses more in section 8 pg 11 Sold to Microsoft in 2003 Johan Sarkinen Page 4 of 19 2012 10 20 COMGT C 2012 COMGT LLC www comgt com info comsgt com European Partner Introduction to Desktop Virtualization 4 Introduction 4 Introduction This document focuses on what is called desktop virtualization and especially the capability to run multiple operating systems simultaneously For instance using Mac OS X Windows 7 Windows XP a complete Linux based VoIP phone system Asterisk checking out a customer relations management CRM system and using advanced tools for digital forensics and information security e g BackTrack all at the same time on one single personal computer Guest s OSs Hypervisor App E g VMware Parallels Host OS Operating Sy
15. h Apps 1 Apps 2 and Apps 3 in Figure 1 on previous page Development for web deployment or embedded systems including mobile devices Have complete development environment ready for some specific hardware have an Android OS running directly on your desktop run multiple Internet Explorer web browsers simultaneously IE 6 7 8 9 Digital forensics easy access to older platforms e g Windows 98 and special tools Information security use virtual machines as sand boxes try out tools explore malware run intrusion detection system IDS network monitors etc Learn a very hot and useful topic virtualization is various forms are directly or indirectly e g in cloud computing mentioned in many job ads 2011 Or to have an environment to learn something running inside a VM like Linux Figure 2 shows a Macintosh computer simultaneously enabling use of Mac OS X MS Windows XP and Linux With graphical user interface GUI and command line interface CLI interfaces xl ene OpenVZ 1 0 XP t3 9 9 9 9 G D B i ipie Miss LEL O VELO pm has Deion lt f MS Windows cmd console E MacOS X Finder gt UCCOCCOOOCOUOCOU EFESETEEEESZ Eg Mac OS X E Dock Johan Sarkinen Page 6 of 19 2012 10 20 COMGT C 2012 COMGT LLC www comgt com info comsgt com European Partner Introduction to Desktop Virtualization 6 What You Need 6 What You Need
16. least highlight the most important things to know And indirectly explains why you can t find free ready to use appliances with Mac or Windows operating systems as you have to buy another license to use 8 1 Mac OS X Apple has traditionally been very restrictive with how their Mac OS X operating system could be used For natural reasons they sell computers not in business of selling operating systems per se e 10 6 Snow Leopard only Server variant is allowed in VM environments e 10 7 Lion both Server and Desktop are now allowed gt The general rule is you have to buy a license for each VM you run 8 2 MS Windows Microsoft as in business of selling operating systems does not have the same restrictions as Apple at least traditionally has had gt The general rule is you must buy a license for each VM you run Windows 7 Pro and higher does include a license for Windows XP Mode 8 3 Linux To some the licensing of Linux is among the bigger benefits not hassles get and run as many copies you want at no special costs or issues Linux is licensed under a license called GNU Public License GPL next 8 4 GPL and Other Open Source Licenses GNU Public License GPL and other free and open source software FOSS licenses allow you to basically use software in any way you like The only restriction is that you have to keep this openness i e you cannot take open sources and make them proprietary as is the c
17. ll it on your hard drive Because all the applications are small and light it makes a very good choice for older hardware Download size around 50 MB and runs fine in only 128 MB of RAM Johan Sarkinen Page 13 of 19 2012 10 20 COMGT C 2012 COMGT LLC www comgt com info comsgt com European Partner Introduction to Desktop Virtualization 11 Procedure 11 1 Preparations 11 11 1 Procedure Preparations Tools What You Need Ls gi ae qu I9 Computer with web browser Internet connection Hypervisor download one of your choice Unzip archive tool to unpack downloaded hypervisor and appliances Possibly A Bit Torrent client some appliances are distributed via torrents 6 Hashing tool MD5 to ensure downloads are good Planning 1 Hard disk Make sure you have enough hard disk space these things 11 2 m me N a gt 11 3 tend to eat up some space Time calculate with half hour or more to get thing set up aside time for downloads Where to keep appliances Consider what appliance s you want to use to decide which hypervisor platform to start with Process Download hypervisor application Download appliance s Verify downloads using MD5 hashes Unpack and install hypervisor Unpack appliance Create VM or immediately start using see Figure 3 Use of VirtualBox vs VMware Player or Parallels Fusion on page 10 for steps Learn More Go to http comgt c
18. m hardware reqts html Ubuntu 11 10 current https help ubuntu com community Installation SystemRequirements Johan Sarkinen Page 17 of 19 2012 10 20 COMGT C 2012 COMGT LLC www comgt com info comsgt com European Partner Introduction to Desktop Virtualization Appendix B Windows 7 and XP Mode Appendix B Windows 7 and XP Mode Does Windows XP Mode REALLY work http us generation nt com answer does windows xp mode really work help 204823131 html page 4 Question Does Windows XP Mode REALLY work September 18th 2011 05 56 pm ET by PDFrank Report spam Help Create a new topic Running Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 have a few good legacy programs that don t run right under Windows 7 even under compatibility mode They ran fine under XP The software companies that wrote the programs went bye bye 89 95 is the price to upgrade to 7 Professional Is it possible that they still might not run right even in XP Mode Answer went with VMWare Player instead of XP Mode basically for two reasons 1 to save the cost and possible problems of upgrading my Win 7 Home Premium to Professional and 2 the ability to run other OSes like Ubuntu in the VM It s interesting to see that even from a strict technical viewpoint XP mode would not be the best choice Appendix C More Readings General http en wikipedia org wiki Virtualization general overview and int
19. om virtual for more information and tips Johan Sarkinen Page 14 of 19 2012 10 20 COMGT C 2012 COMGT LLC www comgt com info comsgt com European Partner Introduction to Desktop Virtualization Appendix A System Requirements Appendix A System Requirements You can get started as long as you have a fairly modern computer but as you will be running multiple operating systems and applications simultaneously the more powerful computer the better Minimum recommended systems is a personal computer Mac OS X MS Windows or Linux based desktop or laptop with 2 GB of RAM and enough free hard disk space to install another operating system from 10 GB and up is appropriate depending on which guest OS More in Table 5 on next page Note that 2 GB RAM really is on the low side when using virtual machines and 3 GB or more is strongly recommended As professionals at COMGT we always load machines with 8 to 16 GB of RAM As one example the recommendations for VirtualBox hypervisor product are shown in Figure 4 This page is for end users who are looking for information about how to download and run VirtualBox In order to run VirtualBox on your machine you need Reasonably powerful x86 hardware Any recent Intel or AMD processor should do e Memory Depending on what guest operating systems you want to run you will need at least 512 MB of RAM but probably more and the more the better Basically you will need whatever
20. pliances 10 1 BackTrack BT Larger BackTrack http www backtrack linux org is a popular digital forensics and information security distro This is a larger distribution and can take a bit of time to download if you have a slower Internet connection Table 3 Download Sizes BackTrack 5 R1 and 4 R2 older Release File Size BackTrack 5 R1 2011 BT5R1 GNOME VM 32 7z 1 64 GB Gnome windows manager 32 bit architecture VMware image BackTrack 4 R2 2010 bt4 r2 vm tar bz2 2 39 GB Additional resources 1 BackTrack in 30 Minutes a two page guide to start with BT http comgt com download BackTrack4in30minutes pdf 2 http www backtrack linux org wiki index php Basic Usage 10 2 Damn Small Linux DSL Smaller DSL http www damnsmalllinux org is on the other side of the spectrum in terms of size From http www vmware com appliances directory 54320 Damn Small Linux has a nearly complete desktop including XMMS MP3 and MPEG FTP client links hacked web browser spreadsheet email spellcheck US English a word processor three editors Nedit nVi Zile emacs clone Xpdf Worker file manager Naim AIM ICQ IRC VNCviwer SSH SCP server and client DHCP client PPP PPPoE a web server calculator Fluxbox window manager system monitoring apps USB support and soon it will have PCMCIA support as well If you like Damn Small Linux you can insta
21. roduction e http en wikipedia org wiki Emulation 9628computing9629 more technical News http www virtualization net Virtualization net Cloud Computing Technology News Forums Videos Support e http www networkworld com topics virtualization html Microsoft http Awww microsoft com virtualization primary focus on data centers and servers e Windows XP Mode in Windows 7 http windows microsoft com en us windows 7 products features windows xp mode VMware VMware Player Documentation http www vmware com support pubs player pubs html e VMware Workstation Documentation https www vmware com support pubs ws pubs html What is the difference between Workstation Player and Server http vmfaq com entry 5 Johan Sarkinen Page 18 of 19 2012 10 20 COMGT C 2012 COMGT LLC www comgt com info comsgt com European Partner Introduction to Desktop Virtualization Acronyms Acronyms CLI Command Line Interface terminal interface FOSS Free and Open Source Software GPL GNU Public License GUI Graphical User Interface req mouse touch screen similar IA 32 Intel Architecture 32 bit aka x86 x86 32 IA 64 Intel Architecture 64 bit aka x64 x86 64 VDI Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Virtual Desktop Interface VM Virtual Machine VMM Virtual Machine Manager Virtual Machine Monitor https www google com search q vdi References 1 None at this point Document
22. stem E g Mac OS X MS Windows or Linux Hardware CPU memory Figure 1 Hardware Host OS and Guest OSs Some key concepts include Figure 1 e Host OS the operating system you re running on your personal computer We are using host to separate this OS from the guest OS s e Hypervisor or virtual machine manager VMM special application that executes on your host OS and runs your virtual machines e Virtual Machine VM all the files that compromises a virtual environment that can be executed by a hypervisor Guest OS s the operating system s you re running inside your virtual machine s via the hypervisor of your choice Note that there are many flavors of virtualization bare metal type 1 hosted type 2 desktop virtual desktop infrastructure VDI server storage network and memory to mention a few but the focus in this document is solely on hosted type 2 desktops Sometime also called virtual machine monitor Johan Sarkinen Page 5 of 19 2012 10 20 COMGT C 2012 COMGT LLC www comgt com info comgt com European Partner Introduction to Desktop Virtualization 5 Why Use or Learn 5 Why Use or Learn e Run applications not available on your OS Mac or Linux users using Windows applications Windows users using free open source software created for Linux Or simply be able to use the best applications out there independently of what OS they run on Indicated wit
23. y Appendix B Windows 7 and XP Mode Appendix C More Readings eese ACrONYMS EET E o D o aaia aan hip t Document History 1i ausente nani once eu te rae nore e eei cerea Johan Sarkinen Page 2 of 19 COMGT C 2012 COMGT LLC www comgt com info comsgt com OCCU OS mec Executive SUITImary acce ecocacecoe ce ce rne ta na rana ren taa tapas pa E nnna About the Autlior oce cceo reina et anta natn aane ien neeet gugere B er oj Se Why Use or Learn eens What You Need c nanna 6 1 32 or 64 bit Versions of Operating Systems Table of Contents a E 7 2012 10 20 European Partner Introduction to Desktop Virtualization Table of Figures Table of Figures Figure 1 Hardware Host OS and Guest OSS sssseesssssssssssssss 5 Figure 2 Mac OS X Windows and Linux at the Same Time 6 Figure 3 Use of VirtualBox vs VMware Player or Parallels Fusion 10 Figure 4 Requirements from VirtualBox ssssssm 15 Table of Tables Table 1 Hypervisors from VirtualBox VMware and Parallels 8 Table 2 VMware Player vs Workstation seeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesseeeeeeeees 9 Table 3 Download Sizes BackTrack 5 R1 and 4 R2 older 1
24. your host operating system needs to run comfortably plus the amount that the guest operating system needs So if you want to run Windows XP on Windows XP you probably won t enjoy the experience much with less than 1 GB of RAM If you want to try out Windows Vista in a guest it will refuse to install if it is given less than 512 MB RAM so you ll need that for the guest alone plus the memory your operating system normally needs e Hard disk space While VirtualBox itself is very lean a typical installation will only need about 30 MB of hard disk space the virtual machines will require fairly huge files on disk to represent their own hard disk storage So to install Windows XP for example you will need a file that will easily grow to several GB in size A supported host operating system Presently we support Windows XP and later many Linux distributions Mac OS X Solaris and OpenSolaris Asupported guest operating system Besides the user manual see below up to date information is available at Status Guest OSes Figure 4 Requirements from VirtualBox https www virtualbox org wiki End user documentation retrieved 2011 12 26 n this case x86 refer to both 32 and 64 bit aka x86 32 and x86 64 or x64 note added in this document Johan Sarkinen Page 15 of 19 2012 10 20 COMGT C 2012 COMGT LLC www comgt com info comsgt com European Partner Introduction to Desktop Virtualization A
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