Booting Up the Linux Virtual Machines

After powering on either of the Linux virtual machines, you need to log in. The default credentials for both Linux environments are username root and password toor.

If you don’t have a DHCP server on your network, find your system’s address range and use the commands shown in the following listing. (Make sure that you replace your IP address with an unused one, and edit the network interface that you will be using. For more on manual network setup, see http://www.yolinux.com/TUTORIALS/LinuxTutorialNetworking.html.)

root@bt:˜# nano /etc/network/interfaces Password: <inside the nano editor place your valid information into the system> # The primary network interface auto eth0 # the interface used iface eth0 inet ...

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