Linux course Virtual Machine
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This is the Linux Mint 20.1 LTS 64bit virtual appliance (VA) for teaching
purposes provided by CSC. CSC provides this client "as is" - it is in the responsibility
of the user to deploy according to the license declarations within this VA.

1) Install Oracle's VirtualBox on your computer (https://www.virtualbox.org/)
2) Download the virtual machine OVA-file from https://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/csc/courses/linux-course/LinuxMint21LTS.ova 
3) Open VirtualBox
4) From menu "File" select "Import Appliance" (Ctrl + I) and choose the downloaded file. 
5) IMPORTANT: tick "Reinitialize MAC address of all network cards" _before_ launching.
6) The default settings for the machine are to use a two cores and 2 GB RAM and 64 MB of video memory;
   these are relatively moderate settings. If you need to adapt these settings (e.g., more RAM in your host),
   do this during importing or using the "Settings" menu _before_ launching
7) Launch the machine (Start, while highlighting the entry). You might be asked to agree to the
   license conditions during the process
8) After a rather lengthy boot time you should be logged in automatically. If asked for a password, use "Please_change" 


Note that the username for the VA is "cscuser" and the password "Please_change". For security reason we recommend
to change at least password, if not creating a new user profile. By default, the firewall inside the guest is
dissabled (assuming that you use NAT networking and have a firewall at host side).

The VA assumes standard PC qwerty keywboard for the 23 ascii letters (Finnish, English, German, ...). 
One can change the default keyboard layout to either another language or Mac-layout
in the  settings: press main menu button on lower left and enter keyboard in search field
- go to "Layout" and press "+" to add the layout of your laptop. You can remove unused layouts
by activating them and press "-" (else switch between them in lower right corner)