University of California at Berkeley
           Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences
                          Instructional Support Group


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/share/b/pub/virtualbox.help
/share/b/pub/fusion.help
								  Oct 10 2014

CONTENTS

	Virtual Machines with VMware and Virtual Box
	Detecting Support for Virtualization
	VMware Academic Program


Virtual Machines with VMware and Virtual Box
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  VMware Player is available for free from http://downloads.vmware.com/.
  Virtual Box is available for free from https://www.virtualbox.org/.

  VMware Player is installed on all of the Instructional Windows computers 
  and Remote Desktop servers.  VMWare 4 requires a 64-bit OS, so our 32-bit 
  servers have VMWare 3.1.5.
  
  VMware Fusion is installed on our MacOSX systems.  

  Virtual Box is installed on our Linux systems, currently in 277 Soda and 
  330 Soda.

  For names and locations of the computers, and for instructions about 
  logging to the Remote Desktop servers, please see
  http://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/connecting.html#labs.

  Also, a reminder: the network setup in your vmx file must be set
  to "hostonly", not to NAT or bridge, to comply with EECS network
  policies.


Detecting Support for Virtualization
------------------------------------

  Some features of VMs require hardware support for virtualization, in the
  form of VT-x (Intel processors, "vmx") or AMD-V (AMD processors, "svm").
  Hardware virtualization must be enabled at the computer's BIOS.  
   
  Here are some ways to test for virtualization support.  To test for it
  in the operating system kernel (look for "vmx" or "svm"):

  Linux:	egrep -i 'vmx|svm' /proc/cpuinfo	
  MacOSX:	sysctl machdep.cpu.features | grep -i 'vmx'

  To test for it in the BIOS setting (it reports either 
  "KVM acceleration can be used" or "KVM acceleration can NOT be used"):

  Linux:	 /usr/sbin/kvm-ok | grep "KVM acceleration"
  
VMware Academic Program
-----------------------

  (June 2014) UCB has procured a campus license for the VMware Academic 
  Program (VMAP). With this, faculty, staff, and students now have free
  access to many VMware products for instruction and non-commercial
  research.  For details, please see http://software.berkeley.edu/vmware

  Terms and conditions for the use of the VMWare products 
  - Acceptable use: http://www.vmware.com/partners/academic/usage.html
  - User agreements: http://www.vmware.com/download/eula/
  

					EECS Instructional Support
					378/384/386 Cory, 333 Soda
					inst@eecs.berkeley.edu