Environment preparation guide¶

• With this guide, you can enable a virtual machine in the VLE environment with the Windows 11 operating system required for the course installed
• VLE environment is part of LabraNet production network in JAMK and thus it requires a VPN connection to LabraNet in order to work

Phase 1: Establish VPN connection to LabraNet¶

• Use this guide for defining your VPN connection: LabraNet Remote Access Guide
• Important: All your network traffic is routed through LabraNet when VPN tunnel is established so only use VPN connection for study purposes!

Phase 2: Connect to VLE environment¶

• Open your browser and go to the address https://portal.vle.fi
• Login using your LabraNet credentials (same you would use for logging in to the computer in the classroom)
• After a successful login you should have VLE front page opened as presented in the example image below

Phase 3: Deploy your virtual machine¶

• In this phase you will deploy yourself a new virtual machine using the template catalog in VLE
• Open the Template catalog from the front page of VLE

• You should see a template named Windows-Basics-Base as presented in the example image below
• Click DEPLOY button

• You should now see Deployment request -window (see exmaple image below)
• Default values will be used for the image to be deployed
• Click CREATE button

• Wait until the deployment is finished

Phase 4: Connect to your virtual machine¶

• After the successful deployment, you should find your newly created virtual machine under the Deployments section in VLE
• Open the Deployments from the front page of VLE

• You should now see all deployed virtual machines (see example image below)

• Click your virtual machine and you should see the management and information page of the selected virtual machine similar to what is presented in the example image below

• As can be seen from the example image above, you have two options for running the virtual machine:

  • VMRC: This requires a separate client application
  • Webconsole: Will be opened to a new browser window

• VMRC client can be downloaded for all modern operating systems from the front page of VLE (see example image below)

• Below is an example image of the view which you should see when using the web console.

• You can login to your Windows 11 virtual machine by using the following default credentials:
  • Username: User
  • Password: Root-66