This is the official virtual machine for the School of Computer Science.

1. Download VirtualBox. Virtualbox is free cross-platform virtualization software which can be found here: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
2. Download the School of Computer Science VM here: http://socs.uoguelph.ca/SoCSVM.zip
3. Extract SoCSvm.zip into a directory of your choosing. This archive contains the disk image for the SoCS VM.
4. Install and run Virtualbox.
5. Choose “New”. Input Debian Linux (64bit) and a name to identify the VM by. Click Continue.
6. Set the RAM size. 1024MB is recommended. Click Continue.
7. Select the SocSVM disk image that you downloaded earlier. To do this, choose “Use an existing virtual hard drive file”, and click the folder icon to the right of that menu. Navigate to where you extracted the hard disk file in step 3 and choose open. Click create.
8. Choose “Start” to start up your VM.
9. Login: The default username is socs (all lower case) and the password is socs. It is recommended that you change this password after logging in. This can be done by opening a terminal and running the passwd command.

• If the display is too large or too small, it can be changed in Settings > Display

The SoCS VM Contains the following packages, installed over top of a fresh Debian 10 Buster installation.

• csh
• curl
• ddd
• emacs
• firefox-esr
• gcc
• geany
• gdb
• git
• gzip
• libc6-dev
• libcurl4-openssl-dev
• nano
• libncurses5-dev
• nethack-console
• manpages-dev
• make
• mysql-client
• net-tools
• openjdk-7-jdk
• openjdk-7-jre
• python-tk
• python3
• python3-tk
• python-dev
• python3-dev
• perl-doc
• python-requests
• python3-requests
• python-mysql.connector
• python-mysqldb
• python3-mysql.connector
• python-pip
• subversion
• valgrind