SYA710 Lab06

Installing FreeBSD 7 as a VM Guest on Fedora 8

• Boot up Fedora 8 Test in lab T2107
• Use Firefox to authenticate yourself
• Perform the following
  • yum update
  • yum install libvirt virt-manager
• After the installs, start libvirtd running this command:
  • service libvirtd start
• Use fdisk to make only one partition on /dev/sdb and mark its type to freebsd
• Insert freebsd 7 install CD (provided by your teacher)
• From the Applications/System Tools menu start virt manager
• Install FreeBSD 7
  • use all of /dev/sdb1
  • setup user clown with password seneca99
  • set root password to seneca99
  • enable networking with dhcp
  • enable ssh server
  • install X window system
• Test FreeBSD 7
  • ssh from host to guest
  • startx - and see what window manager comes up
  • run sysinstall and install more software
• Finally, write a blog about your experience and send an email to your teacher when done