You have the option to use the faculty cloud (OpenStack) to complete your assignments/labs for RL.

To start such a virtual machine for the first time, follow the tutorial at this address, keeping in mind the following key points and notes:

Add a private–public key pair on fep.grid.pub.ro (via ssh) and copy the public key to OpenStack (using the web interface).

Note: You only need to do this step once; the key remains active for the entire academic year (or until the first accidental deletion of it on fep :D).

When creating the virtual machine instance (in the “Launch instance” window), use the following settings:

Give the instance a specific name — use your name and the lab number (e.g., “Iulia Florea Lab 8”);

In the left menu, under Sources, look for RL 2024 rev 1 and click the up arrow to select it;

Under Flavor, m1.small is sufficient — you don’t need more CPUs or memory;

Under Networks, select vlan9 and click the up arrow to set it;

Now you can start the machine by clicking Launch Instance!

Once the VM is running, you can connect to it using the following steps:

Connect via ssh to fep.grid.pub.ro, then to your newly launched virtual machine through its private IP (10.9.x.x). Follow the steps below:

From your physical system, open a terminal and start an SSH session to fep.grid.pub.ro:

student@mjolnir:~$ ssh <moodle_user>@fep.grid.pub.ro

* Attention!! Replace <moodle_user> with your actual username!

From the fep terminal, connect further to your virtual machine on OpenStack:

[iulia.florea@fep7-1 ~]$ ssh -i ~/.ssh/openstack.key student@10.9.x.y

* Attention!! The virtual machine’s IP is obtained from the graphical interface of OpenStack.