The hands-on session will be conducted using two virtual machines. They
were built with VMWare and can be run under either VMWare or Virtualbox hypervisors,
hosted on any of Windows, Linux, or Mac OS-X.
The
freely available VMWare player is available for download at VMWare's
download site (registration required). You should download and
install the most recent version of the player for best results. The
following instructions will describe the process for obtaining the
images.
Please complete these tasks well before the day of
the conference. The image files are large and will take some time to
download and uncompress. A limited number of DVDs and USB drives will be available
for use at the conference, but the time requirements will still be
substantial. The images are a 32-bit Redhat enterprise 5.3 server and
a 32-bit windows enterprise server 2008. As they are unpatched and
unfirewalled, they should not be connected directly to the internet.
NOTE: These images may
contain malware, other potentially undesirable software, and insecure configurations. As a
precaution, we have restricted the images to use host only
networking. These images should be used with extreme caution.
NOTE:
These images are supplied for instructional
purposes during the Lockdown conference only. The images must be
deleted immediately after the conference to avoid license violations.
This year's hands-on session will involve running two virtual machines simultaneously. This will require a fairly modern machine to run acceptably. In addition, you will need sufficient privileges to install software on your machine (if the VMWare products are not already installed).
The virtual machines run in any of:
VMWare Player(free):
Windows XP, Vista, Linux.
VMWare Server(free): Linux, Windows
XP
VMWare Workstation(paid, 30 day free eval): Linux, Windows XP,
Windows Vista
VMWare Fusion(paid, 30 day free eval): Mac
1) 1 GB memory (512 MB may be possible, but will be very slow)
2)
CPU 2 GHz or faster
3) 15 GB or more free disk space
4) A VMWare or Virtualbox hypervisor such as VMWare player.
Download: Approximately 50 minutes (heavily dependent on your
connection).
Decompression: Approximately 15 minutes.
This year's hands-on session will make use of two virtual machines: one running Windows, and another running Linux. The images are packaged in zip files for convenient download. The Windows image decompresses to about 6 GB. The Linux image decompresses to approximately 2.5 GB. The site is wrapped with a simple username and password to keep out the curious and the bots.
Create a folder to hold the images.
Download both images and the checksums here:
Verify the checksums. Linux users can use the md5sum (1) utility, Mac users can use the md5 utility, and Windows users can use the FCIV utility.
Unzip the files.
If you have completed the above steps correctly, you should have a folder structure looking something like this:
win08/
The images have two active accounts. For the Windows VM, these are administrator and ld09user. For the Linux VM, these are root and ld09user. The password for all of these accounts is: ld09pass.
You will want to reduce the memory size of the guest VM's prior to booting them. They were built using 1 GiB each, but should run OK with any amount over 400 MiB each.
If you are using Virtualbox as the hypervisor, don't forget to change the default network type from NAT to host. Do give the two machines the same network (virtual switch) name.
To improve guest VM performance we recommend installing the guest
driver package provided by your hypervisor, such as VMWare tools.