CS 5600: Computer Systems

This assignment is to help set up your environment and make sure that you have a functioning virtual box and CLion installation. Please follow the below steps in order to have an environment that can be used for the following assignments in this class.

  1. Download and install virtual box, you can find it here
  2. Download ubuntu desktop 16.04 from here
  3. In virtual box click the new button, the below screen should show up. Pick Linux and Ubuntu 64-bit
  4. Pick the default options though you might want to increase the amount of RAM it uses if you have enough. I have mine set to 4G.
  5. Double click on the virtual machine you created, it will ask you for a iso file, pick the one you downloaded for Ubuntu.
  6. Get a student license for CLion here
  7. From your virtual machine download CLion from here
  8. Use the archive manager to unzip and decompress the tar.gz file
  9. Execute the clion.sh script to run the CLion program
  10. Take a look at the Quick CMake Tutorial located here