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Intro to Linux & Installation

of Linux on VM
 What is Linux?
An open-source OS
User
Source code freely available
Application

Operating System
Other examples of Operating System are
Windows, MacOS, Android etc.
Hardware (CPU/ram/hdd)
 Let’s understand the timeline first!
RHEL
Large # of
CentOS Linux distros
RedHat
Linus Linux Kernel came in the
market (not
Torvalds (open-source)
Ubuntu open-source)

Fedora
Other
Organizations Kali Linux
Arch Linux

Various organizations modified the Linux kernel (open-source) and released their own
version of version of Linux (called Linux distributions) which is not necessarily open-
source
 What does Linux include?

Kernel System user space

The base component of the
The administrative layer for
OS. Without it, the OS doesn’t
system-level tasks like
work. It’s responsible for
configuration and software install.
memory, process, and file
This includes the shell, or
management.
Applications command line, daemons, processes
that run in the background, and the
A type of software that lets you desktop environment.
perform a task. Apps include
everything from desktop tools and
programming languages to
multiuser business suites.
Basic idea about architecture

App1 App2 App3

Operating System

Hardware (CPU/RAM/HDD)
 What are Virtual Machines?

App1 App2 App3 Each VM can have a Guest OS installed on it

(e.g., RHEL here).
VM1 (Ubuntu) VM2(RHEL) On top of which we can run apps

VMM or hypervisor (e.g., VirtualBox or

Operating System VMWare etc.)
It manages all the VMs

Hardware (CPU/RAM/HDD)
 Installing VirtualBox
• VirtualBox is a Virtual Machine Manager, which is installed on top of your host OS.
• Role of VM is to extract resources from real hardware or Host OS and provide it to VMs.
For instance, you have 8GB of RAM in your laptop, then, VirtualBox will take 1GB RAM (or whatever you specify) and
provide it to VM such that the guest OS installed there think that it is getting real access to 1 GB RAM.

VMM or hypervisor (e.g., VirtualBox or

Host OS VMWare etc.)
It manages all the VMs

Hardware (CPU/RAM/HDD)
Linux is an open source operating system (OS).