Lesson 10 - Chapter 3: Creating a Client-Side Virtual Machine

Question 1

To install a VM, what’s the first step?

Answer 1

Installing a hypervisor (like VirtualBox)

Question 2

Once you install a hypervisor, you’ll have a…?

Answer 2

Virtual Machine Manager to perform a variety of actions (create, start, stop, pause, delete)

Hypervisor = VMM

Question 3

How do you create a new VM in the menu (VirtualBox)?

Answer 3

It’s similar for any VMM, but for VirtualBox the command to start the wizard is Machine > New

Question 4

The hypervisor knows the ___ ___ for each OS and version

Answer 4

system requirements (so select the correct preset in the creation wizard)

Question 5

What comes after installing a new VM?

Answer 5

Installing the Operating System

Question 6

For every VM you create and plan to install Windows, it will require what?

Answer 6

a separate, legal copy of Windows (general rule for any licensed software installed on the VM)

(except for Linux as it’s free and open-source)

Question 7

Most VMM enable you to use the host’s…? (3)

Answer 7

1. optical drive
2. USB port
3. ISO file

Question 8

What’s one of the most popular ways of accessing an ISO file on a VM?

Answer 8

Telling the VM to treat an ISO file as if it were a disc in an optical drive

Question 9

What happens after you start up the VM after installing the hypervisor?

Answer 9

You select an ISO file if you didn’t earlier in the wizard, then click Mount and Retry Boot

(then leave settings at defaults)

Question 10

What’s a reason why you wouldn’t be able to get your cursor out of the VM window?

Answer 10

Guest Additions add-ons to VirtualBox that are OS-specific haven’t been installed yet (which add that capability)

Question 11

What can you press in VirtualBox to release the mouse pointer?

Answer 11

right Ctrl key

(will show on the status bar at the bottom of the VM window)

Question 12

How do you install Guest Additions? (4 steps)

Answer 12

With the VM running (VirtualBox):
1. Devices > Insert Guest Additions CD Image
2. Open file management tool in the OS (File Manager in Ubuntu)
3. Navigate to the virtual optical drive
4. Run the script or executable for the OS currently using

Question 13

What is a bare metal hypervisor also called?

Answer 13

a Type 1 hypervisor

Question 14

Virtualization benefits ___ more than desktops

Answer 14

servers

Question 15

Virtual machines are just ___

Answer 15

files

Question 16

What can VM files be preconfigured with?

Answer 16

Whatever files and software you want the VM to have (minimizes setup and configuration once loaded)

Question 17

What happens if something breaks your VM, what do you do?

Answer 17

boot a fresh copy from the initial image (won’t have lost anything if nothing special was saved on it)

Question 18

What’s a benefit to using a VM in regards to a (physical) network?

Answer 18

you can dynamically re-network VMs by changing a few settings instead of rewiring a physical network