[MUSIC] This video is to help you set up a Virtual Machine environment on your own computer. so that we can have a common environment for every student in the class to use. If you go to our course webpage on the Coursera website you'll find a. In our nav-, left navigation bar the, the, the heading Virtual Machine Installation. Click on that and you'll get a detailed set of instructions on how to install a Virtual Machine. That will give us all a common programming environment in which to do the assignments in the course. The important things to do first are to download a Virtual Machine player. Now, we're going to be doing this for the Windows environment so we're going to be loading a free VMware player. for those of you running Macs or Linux, you might want to try out Virtual Box to do that. We won't be supporting anything other than the Windows environment. But you can find a similar set of instructions will work on, for Virtual Box as well. So if we click on the VM Player, we'll go to the VM Ware website, where you'll find a Download button. to click on and see a whole set of possible VMware players to use. We're going to choose the Windows 32-bit and 64-bit player. And click on that Download. That will let us save an exe file on our machine. [SOUND] After the file is done downloading, you'll see this icon on your desktop. Just double-click on that and run the installer for the VMware. Once that's completed, you'll find the following icon on your desktop for the VM player. But before we do anything else, let's go back to our instructions. And, and look at the next thing we need to do. As we go further down, you'll see download instructions for the actual Virtual Machine image we'll be using. That is available here under the Linux VM installation and Setup. We'll be using a Linux Virtual Machine. This is a very large file. It's about 1.3 gigabytes, so we recommend that you allocate enough time to get this downloaded. the file is also compressed, so you'll need the compression utility called 7zip. So if you don't have that on your machine, you'll find a link here to go find 7zip and install it. again, I'm going to install the 64 bit Windows version and put that on my machine as well. [NOISE]. For those of you who are not on Windows, further down on this page you'll find instructions for Mac OS and Linux versions of 7zip. Okay, the next thing then we'll need is the actual Virtual Machine file itself. you can download that here by fetching the Virtual Machine image directly from the Coursera server. Or you can set up a bit torrent to help you download the file. We'll leave that to you to figure out. All the instructions are here. I am just going to download the Virtual Machine image directly. And you'll notice it's a file called VM.7z. And place that on my desktop as well. So, after the file has downloaded, and that could take a while, you'll find two more icons on your desktop. One is the Virtual Machine. File itself zipped, and the other is the 7zip installer. So let's get the 7zip utility installed first. just do the basic recommended installation. That shouldn't take very long. And then we can, right-click on the Virtual Machine file. And ask, 7zip to extract it here. So what it will now do is extract the file into a folder, in this directory. Okay, when that's completed, you'll have a folder called VM. And if you double-click on that, you'll see a set of files in that. let's not worry about that just quite yet. we'll we'll be using the VMware player to play one of those files. And set up our environment for us. So if we click on VMWare, we can open a Virtual Machine. And what we'll do is naivgate to that file. And you'll notice, there's only one file that we can actually open. called Fedora 64-bit. We'll open that. And then click Play our Virtual Machine. Just click I copied it to get things started. And just remind me later or okay to the various things that will ask. And you'll now see it install. The actual Virtaul Machine that we'll be using. OK, once that decompression is completed we'll have a VM folder. That contains our Virtual Machine image. We're going to execute, that Virtual Machine by using the VM Ware player. So double-click on the VM Ware icon. And open a new Virtual Machine. On that folder, navigating to it if necessary. And then selecting that, Virtual Machine, and playing it. Just click I copied if that pops up. And remind me later if, necessary. And you'll see it go through a sequence of installation. Operations for that Virtual Machine. This may take a few seconds. Okay, when it's completed the installation, we'll see a window on, through our Virtual Machine, and a log in for our default users, happy user. If we click on that, we'll see that it brings up a screen with a few icons on on the top of the screen. And a few icons in the menu bar up at the top. One of the first things you'll want to do is click on the Eexclamation point, either here or here. And this is a little script that we've included that updates all the course materials. So, what I've just done is updated the course materials so that I can get started on the first homework assignment, the first laboratory assignment, Lab zero. Okay. The next thing I'll want to do is open up a terminal window using the icon here in the Applications menu, and type Setup-VM. That will now let me set a new password for my Virtual machine. oops, thats a mistype. And then a new password for my user. Okay so now setup is complete and I can get started using my Virtual Machine. There are a few more things left to do at this point and we're going to go back to our instructions. And you'll notice that as we've just completed part A. And I've shown you how to do that the next thing to do is to set up part B. And I'll leave that up to you to follow these instructions carefully. you'll notice there's a bunch of commands you'll have to give to the prompt in the Terminal window. And this will finally set up everything so that it's ready for us to use. the next video will look at how we get started on Lab zero.