Virtualization and Edubuntu“Edubuntu and Windows!”

Background (Video demo) Working in a heavily Microsoft

environment Trying to introduce Linux/Ubuntu

to students How to do this and be non-

invasive to Windows network/Admins?

Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 is an

example of a virtualized machine. Not the best, Vmware much much

better Works seamlessly with other

Windows products

Creating a virtual hard disk First step is to create a virtual

hard-disk Virtual hard disks are fresh hard-

disks that can have any operating system installed on them

Installing Ubuntu (Video (some bugs in Virtual PC 2007 –

need to tinker and add following settings)

F4 – Safe Graphics ModeF6 – add “vga=791 noreplace-paravirt”

Edit the grub file below to make permanent:vi /boot/grub/menu.lst

Integrating with a Windows network Apt (and repositories) Open-likewise (and Open-likewise

GUI) Samba shares Kerberos ActiveDirectory LDAP PAM authentication

Open-likewise (for laptops)

Installing Open-likewise Type the following in a terminal:

sudo apt-get install likewise-open-gui

That’s it!

Integrating with ActiveDirectory (Admins) Install Samba/Winbind/Kerberos Start having a general knowledge

of pam authentication (pluggable module architecture)

Authenticate through Winbind or Kerberos

Use makehomedir.so to create user home directories automatically

Configure proxy settings for ISA in the /etc/skel file