Lab 1

Venue : Makmal Sistem, Building FTMK.
Date : 16-7-2009.
Time : 10.00 a.m. – 11.50 a.m.

Today is the first lab session for the subject Network Information Technology Security. The lab started punctually at 10.00 a.m. Owing to the quiz yesterday, I feel a bit fear to attend the lab actually. I scared the first lab session will start with lab test. Luckily, it was not like what I have imagined before the lab started. It started with the first chapter – “Introduction to Virtualization & VMware”. Firstly, Mr Zaki explained the concept of virtualization and virtual machine (VM) for the introduction part. Based on my understanding, VM is a sort technology for us to open two or more operating system at the same time. For example, we can open Windows XP and Fedora Linux simultaneously by using VM.

Mr Zaki advised us to use VM if we want to do whatever researches in future. This is because the actual operating won’t be affected if the VM happens to be corrupted or crashed. There are three easy steps to install VM:

1. Install Virtual Machine Monitor (VMM), for example, VMWare Workstation.
   (p/s: other examples of VMM are like Connectix, UMLinux, Xen, etc.)


2. Create disk image.


3. Install the operating system you want, for example, Windows Server 2003.

As a conclusion, VM is a very good tool to use if we want to do researches or experiments, so I would take Mr Zaki’s advice to use VM whenever I want to do projects in future.