Accessing the vre – Kanguru RocIT Defender User Manual

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ROCIT DEFENDER™

USER’S GUIDE

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Dynamic attachment and support of one or more network adapters in

bridged or NAT’d (Network Address Translation) mode.

Ability to specify minimum and maximum memory configurations and

settings.

Dynamically configuring a MAC Address from the drive Serial Number. This

enables the ability to control and monitor each drive via the MAC Address
regardless of the physical NIC card being utilized in the host computer
system.

The VRE provides the ability to support multiple Virtual Machines (VM’s) that are
configured differently or run within different environments. Each VM can be a pre-
loaded image or can be loaded via an automated deployment and build process,
which will install end-user Windows applications into the guest operating system.

4.3.

Accessing the VRE

When the RocIT Drive is first booted, it will either boot directly into the Windows
guest operating system, if a single virtual machine (VM) is configured, or it will
display a VM Selection dialog to enable the ability to select a VM from those
configured on the drive.

In the default configuration, the VRE Desktop is accessible to all users, but can be
locked down as required for delivery to the enterprise. In order to better
understand the architecture of the solution, it is important to understand the
following aspects:

The Windows Guest OS (Virtual Machine) runs within the Oracle VirtualBox

VMM (Virtual Machine Manager) that is installed on the VRE. In other words,
Windows is running within the Linux-based VRE operating system.

There are three virtual terminals available (VT1, VT7, and VT8), that can be

accessed by using the following key combinations (,
, and ) respectively.

♦ VT1 – Admin Console: This console provides a command-line terminal

console that ONLY the admin user of the VRE can log into.

♦ VT7 – VRE Desktop: This runs the VRE Desktop GUI interface from

which the user can access and modify VRE and/or VM settings.

♦ VT8 – VM Desktop: The end user virtual machines run within the VT8

Desktop.

Modification of a VM’s configuration can ONLY be performed when the Guest

VM is not running.