© David Both 2020
D. BothUsing and Administering Linux: Volume 3https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5485-1_2

2. Server Configuration

David Both1 
(1)
Raleigh, NC, USA
 

Objectives

In this chapter you will learn about and perform some basic configuration on the StudentVM2 server VM including:
  • Setting the hostname.

  • Prepare the server to become the DHCP server for the virtual network.

  • Changing the network configuration to static.

  • Verifying the virtual network connection between StudentVM1 and StudentVM2, as well as between the VMs and the outside world.

Overview

In Chapter 1 of Volume 3 we created the StudentVM2 virtual machine which will become the server for our virtual network. There are some configuration items that we need to modify on the VM to further prepare ...

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