Configuring a multi-course lab for system-level projects

Having students modify an actual operating system kernel or network protocol stack opens their eyes to what is going on "beneath the hood" of a computer. However student modifications to a system may result in an unstable computer. Because of this, giving students such experience has in th...

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Published in:Proceedings of the Thirty-Sixth SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education: SIGCSE 2005, St. Louis, Missouri, February 23-27, 2005 St. Louis, Missouri, February 23-27, 2005, 2005, Vol.37 (1), p.525-529
Main Authors: Adams, Joel C., Laverell, W. David
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Language:English
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Summary:Having students modify an actual operating system kernel or network protocol stack opens their eyes to what is going on "beneath the hood" of a computer. However student modifications to a system may result in an unstable computer. Because of this, giving students such experience has in the past required a lab and/or computers dedicated to the students in the system-level course, and computer science departments without such dedicated facilities have been unable to provide their students with system-level experience. In this paper, we present two ways of giving students system-level experience in a non-dedicated lab; one using commercial software (VMWare), and another using open-source freeware (User Mode Linux Kernel).
ISSN:0097-8418
DOI:10.1145/1047124.1047509