Lab Environment Setup

• There is no need for a physical lab space.
• All the lab activities can be carried out on students' computers.
• We provide VM images, and all the labs have been tested in the images.
• All software used in the lab environment is open-source and free.

Virtual Machine Software (VirtualBox)

Install the free VirtualBox. Please stay away from the newest version, as they tend to have minor issues with our VMs, based on our past experience. If the current version is 6.0.22, go for 6.0.18 will be safer. Although our instructions are only for VirtualBox, the pre-built VM images can also run on VMWare.

Pre-built Virtual Machine Images (Ubuntu)

All the SEED labs should be conducted in our pre-built virtual machine image, because we have installed all the necessary tools, software, and libraries that are needed by the SEED labs. Students just need to download the VM, and run it using VirtualBox (or VMWare).

• SEED Ubuntu16.04 VM (32-bit): This VM was built in June 2019. We have made some small changes based on the 2018-May version.
  • Download the image from one of the following servers:
    • Google Drive: SEEDUbuntu-16.04-32bit.zip
    • DigitalOcean: SEEDUbuntu-16.04-32bit.zip
    • Cybersecurty.com: SEEDUbuntu-16.04-32bit.zip
    • Syracuse University (New York, US): SEEDUbuntu-16.04-32bit.zip
    • Zhejiang University (Zhejiang, China): SEEDUbuntu-16.04-32bit.zip
    • MD5 value: 12c48542c29c233580a23589b72b71b8
  • Unzip SEEDUbuntu-16.04-32bit.zip and you should be able to see a folder that contains the VM files.
    • Follow this document to run and configure the VM on VirtualBox.
    • You will be logged into an account called seed, and its password is dees (the reverse order of seed).
• (Cloud Approach) If you prefer to run the above SEEDUbuntu16.04 VM from Amazon Cloud (AWS), you can find it in AWS's community AMIs. Please read the instruction regarding How to Launch SEEDUbuntu VM in AWS. It should be noted that the default password for this VM has been changed (see the same document).

• SEED Ubuntu12.04 VM (32-bit): This VM was built in Jaunary 2016; it has been phased out. However, two of the SEED labs still depend on this VM.
  • Download the image from the following server (the MD5 checksum of the file is 6ec9c429a2f4a9163530ada20f0621dc):
    • Syracuse University: SEEDUbuntu12.04.zip
    • DigitalOcean: SEEDUbuntu12.04.zip
    • Zhejiang University: SEEDUbuntu12.04.zip
  • User Manual: includes the account and password information, list of software and servers installed, and configuration.