Assignment 1

The purpose of the OPS245 assignments is to showcase your abilities in the course thus far, and conduct a bit of independent research. Some of what you'll be asked to complete will be familiar to you, while other parts will require you to think a bit and do some light Googling. It's expected you won't have all the answers right away, but you can find them. As a result, unlike labs, your professor cannot provide any help or troubleshooting for your assignment.

This assignment will be completed inside your local c7host virtual machine using additional KVM/QEMU nested VMs.

Weight: 15% of your overall grade

Due Date: Refer to your section's Blackboard announcements.

Create a new virtual machine

Create a new Centos 7 VM (Minimal installation) using the following information. You may refer to your lab instructions, logbook and google for any of the steps. The installation process is the same as centos1 in Lab 2.

• Install a new CentOS Minimal VM. (Do not install the GUI version.)
• The virtual machine name and the internal hostname for the machine must be your Seneca username. (Example: cjohnson30)
• The regular user created during installation must also be your Seneca username.
• Ensure LVM is used in your installation partitioning.
• Memory: 2048 MB
• Disk space: 20 GB
• CPUs: 2
• Use your existing virtual network

The rest of this assignment should be done after the installation is completed successfully.

Post Installation Tasks

Use yum to accomplish the following:

• Find and install the Cinnamon desktop environment: yum install cinnamon
• Do the rest of the assignment (including the assignment submission) while running Cinnamon. (Hint: Think about default targets.)
• Update the system
• Disable SELinux
• Stop, disable and remove firewalld
• Install, start and enable iptables-services

Install a Second Linux Distribution as a Virtual Machine

Create a new Linux Mint VM (Cinnamon Edition) in VMWare, using the following information. Use the default partitioning and installation options.

• Username: Your Seneca Username
• Memory: 2048 MB
• Disk space: 20 GB
• CPUs: 2
• The virtual machine name and the hostname for the machine must be your learn user ID followed by -mint. For example asmith15-mint
• Install Linux Mint as the OS for the new virtual machine (VMWare).

Post Installation Tasks

• Update the system using apt instead of yum. The rest of the process is the same.
• Use apt to install Chromium. You may need to use Google to accomplish this.

Submission

Submit the following screenshots on BlackBoard that show you've completed the work.

Centos VM

• Centos VM installed
• Output of the hostname command
• Cinnamon desktop installed and in use
• SELinux disabled
• IPTables service runnign and enabled

Linux Mint VM

• Linux Mint VM installed
• Chromium installed

Rubric

Task	Maximum mark	Actual mark
New CentOS VM installed (Seneca username)	5
Correct hostname (Seneca username)	2
Using Cinnamon	2
SELinux disabled	2
IPTables service running and enabled	2
Linux Mint VM installed	5
Chromium installed in Mint VM	2
Total	20