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VMwareBasicsand Introduction

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Contents

1. VMWARE BASICS AND INTRODUCTION...................................................22. HOW TO OBTAIN VMWARE SOFTWARE? ................................................33. UNPACKING THE IMAGE ............................................................................44. USING THE VMWARE VIRTUAL MACHINE................................................4

4.1 OPEN THE VIRTUAL MACHINE IN VMWARE ..................................................44.2 START THE VIRTUAL MACHINE....................................................................54.3 LOGIN TO THE VIRTUAL MACHINE AND ACCEPT THE LICENSE AGREEMENT .....74.4 OPEN THE TERMINAL WINDOW ...................................................................94.5 CLOSE THE TERMINAL WINDOW ...............................................................11

1. VMware Basics and Introduction

The VMware Player and VMware Workstation are the synonym for test beds anddeveloper environments across the IT industry. While having many other functions forthis specific purpose it allows the easy distribution of an up and running Linuxsystem featuring latest DB2 9.7 and WebSphere Application Server technology rightto anybodys computer be it a notebook, desktop, or server.The VMware image can be deployed for simple demos and educational purposes or itcan be the base of your own development and experiments on top of the given

environment.

What is a VMware image?

VMware is providing a virtual computer environment on top of existing operating systemson top of Intel or AMD processor based systems. The virtual computer has all theusual components like a CPU, memory and disks as well as network, USB devices oreven sound. The CPU and memory are simply the existing resources provided by theunderlying operating system (you can see them as processes starting with vmware..The disks are different. For the host operating systems they show up as a collection offiles that can be copied between any system even between Windows and Linuxflavors. Those virtual disk files make up the most part of the image while the actual

description file of the virtual machine is very small.

The following will illustrate how to obtain VMware Player. Then, it will show you how tostart the VMware image for the Hands-On Labs used in this technical session.


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2. How to obtain VMware Software?

Open a web browser and visit www.vmware.comClick on the Downloads link. Look for the Downloads link on the upper right hand cornerof the page.

Figure 1 Obtaining VMWare software

Click on the Desktop Downloads Tab.

Figure 2 Obtaining VMWare software (Continued)


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Click on the product of your choice. We recommend VMware Player or VMwareWorkstation. Follow the on screen instructions for registration and download.

3. Unpacking the imageThe image is delivered in a self-extractable set of rar files. For easy handling the files arecompressed to 700MB volumes. Download all the volumes to the same directory.

Double click the executable file (highlighted in the figure below) and select thedestination folder.

4. Using the VMware Virtual Machine

4.1 Open the Virtual Machine in VMware

Starting the VMware virtual machine can happen through either way:

Double click on the file DB2 Express-C 9.7 32-bit.vmx in your WindowsExplorer or Linux file browser.

Figure 3 Starting the Virtual Machine by double clicking on the vmx file

Or:

Select it through the File > Open icon in the VMware console.


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Figure 4 Starting the Virtual Machine using File -> Open

Either way should result in the screen below:

Figure 5 Starting the Virtual Machine

4.2 Start the Virtual Machine

Next the image can be booted up by pressing the Power On button in the upperleft side (marked in a red circle above).

You may be prompted with a dialog box indicating the VMWare image has been movedor was copied as shown in the figure below. Choose the default I copied it


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Figure 6 Starting the virtual machine Moved or copied it?

The system will power up like any other Linux system and will come to the state as

shown in the figure below:

Figure 7 Starting the Virtual Machine Login prompt

After the virtual machine has finished booting up, you can now work inside the virtualmachine environment. To bring focus into the virtual machine environment, click inside

the virtual machine screen with your mouse or click on the Full Screen button in

the toolbar on top of the VMware window.After clicking on the screen, you may not see your mouse pointer anymore, this isnormal as you are now operating in a command line mode inside the virtual machine.You can bring focus to the host operating system at any point by pressing Ctrl + Alt atthe same time.

The next section will explain the user IDs and passwords you will need.


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4.3 Login to the Virtual Machine and Accept theLicense Agreement

At the prompt for a login user ID in Figure 6 above, enter:

User ID: rootPassword password

You will only use this user ID and password once.

You will then see several panels similar to the figure below asking you to read,understand and accept the license agreement.

Figure 8 Accepting the licenses

In order to use this image, you must accept all of the listed agreements and notices thatwere displayed. Select I accept to go to the next screen. If you do not agree with thelicense, select Abort and the virtual machine will be shutdown automatically. After youhave chosen I accept or I understand in all panels, a black window will appear for a

few seconds. Do not touch anything! The graphical interface will eventuallyautomatically start, and you will be prompted for a user ID as shown in the figure below.


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Figure 9 Login in to your Linux system

At the prompt, enter the following credentials:

User ID: db2inst1Password password

This is the user ID and password you will use from now on for all exercises.You will notbe prompted again to accept licenses the next time you use thissame virtual machine.

If you log on successfully, you will see your desktop looking similar to the figure below


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Figure 10 Your desktop

4.4 Open the Terminal Window

In order to execute commands, we will use the Command Line Terminal. To launch the

terminal window, press the menu at the bottom left corner of the screen,

and select .


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Figure 11 Starting a terminal

A terminal window similar to the above will pop up after you click on the icon.

Figure 12 Starting a terminal (continued)

The terminal gives you a command line prompt and allows you to execute anycommands using this prompt.


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4.5 Close the Terminal Window

To close the terminal window, simple click on the X button on the top right hand cornerof the terminal window, or type exit at the command prompt to exit out of the logged-interminal. (Note, it might take multiple exitcommands to logout of all logged-in sessions

and close the terminal window if you have remote login or you are logged into a differentuser from this terminal window).

Figure 13 Closing your terminal

This ends this short introduction.


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