Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Syracuse University

Lab Environment Setup

Lab Tasks

The goal of is lab is to install, setup, and get familiar with the lab environment, which includes VMware, Minix, and Linux. This environment is used for all the projects in this course, and getting familiar with them is critical.
  • Install VMware workstation 6. You can get a serial number from the TA. This serial number is provided by VMware via its academic program. You can install the software on your personal computers (Windows or Linux only), but you need to comply with the license agreement described in http://www.vmware.com/academic.

  • Install Linux Fedora (any recent version is ok) as a guest operating system on VMware virtual machine. You can download this OS from the Internet.

  • Install Minix 3. You can go through the installation of Minix 3, or directly use a pre-built minix3 virtual machine. You can get both from the minix3 web site.

  • Install the Netwox tools. Here are the manuals of Netwox, Netwib, and Netwag.

Helpful Documents

Although some of the following documents are for Minix 2 and older version of VMware (4.5) the difference between versions is not very significant.

Reference Links