
Consult with your Instructor to determine the exact SCS VM you are expected to use for your course! Many VMs continue to be used for both future terms and different courses.

The naming convention is the usually the course code COMPXXXX of the course it was built for, followed by an optional term, such as -F21 for Fall 2021, representing when it was created. Most will work fine with other hypervisors (KVM, VMWare, Hyper-V, etc.). The SCS Course Virtual Machines (SCS VMs) are all in VirtualBox.

General Virtual Machine guides and troubleshooting articles Step-by-step tutorials that demonstrate how to set up Virtual Machines or your computer NOTE: Most hypervisors do NOT support the Apple M1 chipset. By taking advantage of hypervisor technology, students can continue to run their preferred operating system (Windows 10, Linux, older Intel based macOS devices, etc.), and run the course Virtual Machine on their computer like they would any other application. For example, most of our courses use Virtual Machines built on the Linux environment. This allows you to run any number of guest operating systems without impacting the operating system on your own host computer. The Virtual Machine runs on top of your host computer’s operating system, using a virtualization tool called a hypervisor. Virtual Machines are virtual computers running as an application on a host computer, such as your laptop. The virtual operating system term is synonymous with other terms such as Virtual Machine, VM and instance

