Department of Electrical Engineering

DEC 50103 – OPERATING SYSTEMS

PROGRAMME : DTK
PRACTICAL WORK NO : 1
TITLE : VIRTUAL OPERATING SYSTEM
DATE :
LECTURER’S NAME :

1. PRACTICAL WORK ASSESSMENT (PLO5, P4,CLO2)

COMPETENCY SKILL
LAB REPORT
Student able to identify, construct and handle the Practical ATTAINMENT ASSESSMENT
ATTAINMENT
Work base on criteria below
VIRTUAL OPERATING SYSTEM Refer list of students
S1 
Install VirtualBox Results 
S2 
( Activity 1A)
S3  Analysis /

S1  Discussion
Install VMWare Player
S2 
( Activity 1B)
S3  Conclusion 
S1 
Utilize VMWare Player ODD and basic Network Setting
( Activity 1C)
S2 
S3 
S1 
Utilize VirtualBox ODD and basic Network Setting ( Activity 1D) S2 
S3 
S1 
Prepare VMWare virtual hard disk
( Activity 1E)
S2 
S3 
S1 
Prepare VirtualBox virtual hard disk
( Activity 1F)
S2 
S3 
S1 
Troubleshooting problem S2 
S3 
S1

Percentage Practical Skill (70%) Score (30%)

S2

S3

PRACTICAL WORK ASSESSMENT

NO. REG. NO. NAME GROUP MEMBERS TOTAL

COMPETENCY LAB REPORT (100%)
SKILL (70%) (30%)

S1

S2

S3
PRACTICAL SKILL ASSESSMENT RUBRIC

REPORT LAB RUBRIC

1 LEARNING OUTCOMES (LO):

1. : Investigate the background process performed by operating systems based on management

of memory, resource and file to ensure the computer system operates at optimum performance

2. : Perform installation for workstation and domain server using MS Windows server or Open
Source server operating system

3. : Demonstrate awareness of professionalism and computer ethics during practical work to

comply with professionals bodies such as ACM or IEEE

2 OBJECTIVE

Upon completion lab session, student should be able to:

1. Prepare and check minimum requirement and install virtual machine for operating system
2. Use the different virtual machine application features
3. Access the command prompt interface
4. Use command prompt to manage files and folder
5. Use command prompt to perform basic operating system function

3 THEORY

PART ONE
Originally, a Virtual PC is a program for APPLE/MAC computer that emulates Windows 95, Windows
98, Windows NT, as well as IBM OS/2, or Linux on a Macintosh personal computer, assuming it's
equipped with a sufficiently fast microprocessor. With Virtual PC installed, a Mac can show the
desktop for the emulated operating system on one part of the display or it can take up the entire
screen.

Any program that will run under the other operating systems on "regular" (Intel microprocessor-
based) PCs can be run inside a virtual PC. Now Virtual PC is also available for Microsoft Windows.
This allow user to run multiple OS inside a single PC for testing or for solving software compatibility.

PART TWO
Operating system (OS) existed long before PCs were invented. Ancient, massive computers called
mainframes and minicomputers employed sophisticated OSs. When IBM roll out their PC in 1970 and
looking for an OS to operate the PC, that was the time MS-DOS were release.

MS-DOS use command line interface to accept user command. All of it function is done base on the
command typed by the user.

Within today Windows operating system, the command line interface still exists and plays a very
important role. When a windows OS unable to boot-up, the command line is critical to perform system
recovery and such.

4 EQUIPMENT / TOOLS

1. Personal Computer/Laptop running Windows 7

2. Virtual Box Installer Package
3. WMWare Installer Package
VIRTUAL OPERATING SYSTEM

5 ACTIVITY 1A : INSTALLATION OF VIRTUAL BOX

THEORY

Although Microsoft Virtual PC is free, it does not officially support open source OS. It may run them,
but no support is provided by Microsoft. Because of this user turn to third party Virtual PC like the
Virtual BOX. It may not have the robust design of Microsoft Official Virtual PC but its also free to use
and the community support is helpful.
PROCEDURE

1. Turn on the PC and let windows load.

2. Copy the Virtual Box installer package into the PC hard disk.

3. Run the Virtual Box installer package.

4. Click NEXT at the welcome page.

5. You may change the installation location but dot remove any module from the default. Click
NEXT.

6. Click NEXT again.

7. Click YES then INSTALL.

8. If any windows show up asking whether to continue to install any untested components,
choose to CONTINUE ANYWAY.

9. When the installation is done, click FINISH.

ACTIVITY 1B : INSTALLATION OF VMWARE PLAYER

THEORY

VMware Player is a free version of VMware Workstation from VM. It can create virtual machine and
run them but with limited functionality compare to the full version workstation. It’s provide simple
installation of OS for virtual machine compare to Virtual Box which requirement a bit more of technical
knowledge to use. It is also well documented compare to virtual box.

PROCEDURE

1. Install the VMware Player using the installer.

2. Follow the installation instruction carefully.

3. Use default configuration.

ACTIVITY 1C : USING VMWARE PLAYER

THEORY

Virtual machine acts as a computer. It has similar basic capacities as a physical computer. Usually a
virtual machine will have the exact same physical hardware as the computer its run on. Optical drive,
network interface card, USB drive, all will be duplicate it the virtual machine. However, to access these
physical hardware is different since everything is only in virtual form.

In this activity, student will learn to use 2 main functions, the optical drive and the network properties.
These 2 functions will be use heavily during all Operating System course practical work.

PROCEDURE

1. Run the VMware application.

2. At the welcome screen choose Home (House symbol) and then choose Open a Virtual
Machine. Search for Windows XP Professional inside c:\Iso Image\Windows XP
Professional folder.

3. Now play the Windows XP Professional virtual machine. When windows appears, choose
I copied it.

4. Let windows load until you can the windows desktop.

 5. To insert an optical disc (CD or DVD) into the virtual machine is done by inserting the ISO
image of the optical disk into the virtual machine ODD drive. To do this click the Player menu
on top left of the virtual machine windows and select Manage then Virtual Machine
Settings… (or press Ctrl D). A new windows opens, choose the Hardware Tab and select
CD/DVD (IDE).

6. To insert a particular CD ISO, in Connection box, tick Use ISO image file and browse the
location of the ISO image. If you are using a physical disc, choose Use physical drive and
select the ODD containing the disc. To confirm the disc is inserted, close the Virtual Machine
Settings windows and open My Computer to confirm the content of the virtual machine
ODD.

7. Next, to change the Virtual Machine network hardware characteristic reopen the Virtual
Machine Settings windows. In Hardware tab choose Network Adapter. In the Network
connection box, tick Bridged: Connected directly to the physical network. This will be
the default setting we will use in all of our lab exercise (Please remember this). To change
the network IP address or properties, this can be done through the operating system. Try
changing the network address to 10.122.34.21.

ACTIVITY 1D : USING VIRTUAL BOX

THEORY

Same as WMware, Virtual Box hardware are also access through certain menu.

PROCEDURE

1. Run the Virtual Box application.

2. Choose the new OS. Now click the setting icon (look like a gear). This will open the setting
menu for that particular OS.

3. To access the ODD select storage and then select the single cd icon inside the Storage
Tree box. If you are using a physical disc, select the ODD drive in the Attributes box. If
you’re using an image cd click the cd icon in the Attributes and then Choose a virtual
CD/DVD file… Browse for the cd image. Click the OK button.

4. Now to change the network hardware setting. Again open the setting windows for the
operating system. Select Network.

5. Open Adapter 1 tab. Make sure to tick the Enable Network Adapter.

6. Now Choose Bridged Adapter (click Attached to dropdown menu). Close the setting
windows by clicking the OK button.

ACTIVITY 1E : PREPARING A VMWARE PLAYER VIRTUAL HARD DISK

THEORY

Before a user can use a virtual machine, the user need to install the operating system in the virtual
machine. To do that, first the user must prepare the virtual machine hardware specification (setup up
hard drive size, memory size, name, setting etc). A user can configure his/ her own virtual machine
hardware specification as needed. The virtual machine software will suggest certain value in order for
the installed operating software to work properly. So basically, a user can set a higher specification
than the suggested by software but must not go below as this will affect the virtual machine
performance.
 PROCEDURE

1. Run VMware player.

2. Create a new virtual machine.

3. Choose ‘I will install the operating system later’.

4. Select the appropriate OS to be install. Choose any window OS.

5. In the virtual machine name box type in the name for your virtual machine, for example
Win7_Amirul_Lab1D. (Name must contain OS product, Student name and lab
no/activity). Change the location to your work directory.

6. Click NEXT. Choose to store the virtual OS as a split file.

7. Finish the configuration.

8. Repeat step 1 to 6 to create another virtual OS for a Ubuntu/Linux OS.

ACTIVITY 1F : PREPARING A VIRTUAL BOX HARD DISK

PROCEDURE

1. Run Virtual Box. Click the NEW button. Click NEXT.

2. Choose the OS developer and then choose the version. Select Window 2003.

3. Type a name. Follows the instruction on how to name the virtual machine in activity 1E.
Click NEXT.

4. Use the recommended memory size or you may change it to make it bigger. Do not
change it to smaller size than recommended. Click NEXT.
5. Select start-up disk and choose Create new hard disk.

6. Choose VDI (Virtual Box Disk image). Click NEXT.

7. Choose dynamically allocated size. Don’t change the recommended hard disk size. Click
NEXT. If any error pops-up, reduce the hard disk size.

8. Change the file location to your working folder. Clicks CREATE. Wait until finish.

9. Repeat step 1 to 8 to create another virtual OS for a Ubuntu/Linux OS.

6 RESULT
Make a screenshot with the description.

(10 marks)

7 DISCUSSION
Make a discussion based on the questions below.

1. Base on Activity 1E and 1F, explain why the virtual machine installer package options is best left
as default (memory size, hard disk size) when preparing for the installation?

(5 marks)
 2. From Activity 1C&1D, compare 3 (THREE) features of Virtual Box and VMware player.

(5 marks)

8 CONCLUSION
Write conclusion based on your work in this practical session

(10 marks)

PREPARED BY: APPROVED BY:

Course Lecturer Course Coordinator

PN SITI ZALINA BINTI MOKHTAR

PN ROZANITA BINTI BAHARUDIN

Date:
Date: 4/3/2021