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Identification of chosen keyword (unless you update the section heading above).

Aptitude is a menu-driven, text-based front-end to the Advanced Packaging Tool or APT system. Many of the common package management functions, such as installation, removal, and upgrade, are performed in Aptitude with single-key commands.

start Aptitude as a normal user with the following command at a terminal prompt

lab46:~$ sudo aptitude

lab46:~$ aptitude update

lab46:~$ aptitude upgrade 

Is a virtualization that presents a software interface to virtual machines.

virtualization technique that provides a virtual machine enviorment that is a complete simulation of the underlying hardware. It requires that every aspect of the hardware be reflected on other virtual machines, including the full instruction set, input/output operations, interrupts, memory access, and whatever other tools that are used by the software that runs on the bare machine.

A virtual machine monitor that allows multiple multiple operating systems to execute on the same hardware.

This is a server emulation software, that emulates blizzard battle.net online gaming services.

In the process of setting up a server so more will come for this part of this one..

Virtual Server, is a server to which intended virtual machines will be hosted and or migrated off of.

this example is the server that had been created in class.

lab46:~$ ssh root@vmserver02.student.lab

A machine on a server set up to run particular processes predefined by the user but not limited to just these, or not limited to only existing inside of a virtual machine. The benefit to this is the ease of portability depending on software used in porting it to other systems without reconfiguration, and possibly while it is still running.

Again this example is the virtual machine within the server created in the previous word.

lab46:~$ ssh root@vm34.student.lab

Defining a script that is set to run on the start up of a software or service that determines particular variables that effect the working environment in relation to end user settings desired in a particular circumstance.

such files as working with the pvpgn server we are setting up are:

*.conf

State the course objective

In your own words, define what that objective entails.

State the method you will use for measuring successful academic/intellectual achievement of this objective.

Follow your method and obtain a measurement. Document the results here.

Reflect upon your results of the measurement to ascertain your achievement of the particular course objective.

• How did you do?
• Is there room for improvement?
• Could the measurement process be enhanced to be more effective?
• Do you think this enhancement would be efficient to employ?
• Could the course objective be altered to be more applicable? How would you alter it?