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4 | e4551231 | Kostas Papadimitriou | Cyclades user guide |
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7 | e4551231 | Kostas Papadimitriou | Welcome! |
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10 | e4551231 | Kostas Papadimitriou | In Cyclades, you can create your own virtual machines, manage them and connect them via private networks. |
11 | e4551231 | Kostas Papadimitriou | When you first enter the Cyclades homepage, the main menu bar will appear in front of your screen: |
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13 | e4551231 | Kostas Papadimitriou | .. figure:: images/image.png |
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15 | e4551231 | Kostas Papadimitriou | HELLO IMAGE |
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18 | e4551231 | Kostas Papadimitriou | How to create a VM? |
19 | e4551231 | Kostas Papadimitriou | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
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21 | e4551231 | Kostas Papadimitriou | Initially, as in most important things, you have to press the big bright button! (|image7_png|) |
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24 | e4551231 | Kostas Papadimitriou | **Step 1:** |
25 | e4551231 | Kostas Papadimitriou | Select the operating system you want for your VM |
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27 | e4551231 | Kostas Papadimitriou | .. image:: images/image.png |
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29 | e4551231 | Kostas Papadimitriou | You can choose between Windows 2008 Server Edition or different distributions of Linux (with or without a GUI). |
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32 | e4551231 | Kostas Papadimitriou | **Step 2:** |
33 | e4551231 | Kostas Papadimitriou | Depending on the OS you have selected, ~okeanos has preselected some of the VM's characteristics. |
34 | e4551231 | Kostas Papadimitriou | If you want, you can change them now! |
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38 | e4551231 | Kostas Papadimitriou | You can select how many cores your processor will have, how many GB of RAM your system will boast , or the size of your disk drive. |
39 | e4551231 | Kostas Papadimitriou | Alternatively, you can simply choose the power scale of your VM, ie Small, Medium or Large. |
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42 | e4551231 | Kostas Papadimitriou | **Step 3:** |
43 | e4551231 | Kostas Papadimitriou | Name your VM! |
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47 | e4551231 | Kostas Papadimitriou | At this point, you can name your VM and give it a role (MailServer, Proxy, etc.). |
48 | e4551231 | Kostas Papadimitriou | The above do not affect the VM you create. They merely help you with categorising your arsenal of VMs! |
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50 | e4551231 | Kostas Papadimitriou | As for the ssh keys, they can be regarded as your "fingerprint", large alphanumeric sequences that allow you to access remote machines without ever having to enter your username/password. |
51 | e4551231 | Kostas Papadimitriou | More details about the process of creating these keys can be found in `How can I create SSH keys?`_. |
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54 | e4551231 | Kostas Papadimitriou | **Step 4:** |
55 | e4551231 | Kostas Papadimitriou | Confirmation |
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59 | e4551231 | Kostas Papadimitriou | At this point you will see a summary of your choices. If everything seems fine to you, by clicking the "create machine" button, your order will be processed and your VM will be available in no time! |
60 | e4551231 | Kostas Papadimitriou | And of course, do not forget to save the password that will appear on your screen, since for security reasons there is absolutely no other way to retrieve it! |
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62 | e4551231 | Kostas Papadimitriou | .. _cyclades-connection-guide: |
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64 | e4551231 | Kostas Papadimitriou | How do I connect to a VM? |
65 | e4551231 | Kostas Papadimitriou | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
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67 | e4551231 | Kostas Papadimitriou | Now that you have created your machine, you can connect to it. We have created the following guides to help decompose the connecting process into a set of simple commmands and clicks-clicks, having the less computer savvy user in mind. Before we begin with the guides, we need to clarify some terms that might be new to an ~okeanos user, but are important to help choose what guide suits his/her needs: |
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69 | e4551231 | Kostas Papadimitriou | * **Host machine** is the computer you are using in your home i.e. your laptop, your PC |
70 | e4551231 | Kostas Papadimitriou | * **Guest machine** is the target VM you want to connect to in ~okeanos |
71 | e4551231 | Kostas Papadimitriou | * **Graphical connection** is your typical connection type, the one with the fancy graphics that you most propably use in your host machine. *(Not available for Debian Base and CentOS guest machines)* |
72 | e4551231 | Kostas Papadimitriou | * **Command-line connection** is a less typical connection type, where navigating and using your VM consists of typing commands to a terminal. *(Not available for Windows guest machines)* |
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74 | e4551231 | Kostas Papadimitriou | With that clarified, you can jump right into the appropriate guide |
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76 | e4551231 | Kostas Papadimitriou | * `Windows host to Windows guest [Graphical]`_ |
77 | e4551231 | Kostas Papadimitriou | * `Windows/Linux host to Linux guest [Graphical]`_ |
78 | e4551231 | Kostas Papadimitriou | * `Windows/Linux host to Linux guest [Command-line]`_ |
79 | e4551231 | Kostas Papadimitriou | * `Linux host to Windows guest [Graphical]`_ |
80 | e4551231 | Kostas Papadimitriou | * `Connecting via console`_ |
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