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Quick start instructions
Based on the quick start Quick Start instructions
Login
Login to the Web Dashboard (setting the domain to 'ed')
Register a SSH key
If you already have a SSH key of your own you can upload it.
Create an SSH Key Pair (or upload an existing key)
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Click on the big blue 'Launch Instance' button to launch your VM instance.
Configure
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network
To configure the network connection, select 'Associate floating IP' from the 'Actions list for your VM instance.
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Finally, click the big blue 'Associate' button to associate the allocated IP address with your VM instance.
SSH login
ssh
Login
You should now be able to login to your VM instance via ssh.
Note - the user name is derived from the OS name of the image, so for a Centos7 image, login as 'cenos', for a Ubuntu-16 image login as 'ubuntu'.
ssh centos@172.16.49
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.33Configure DNS
By default the DNS settings in the VM are not set correctly
Execute the following commands to reapir the settings.
#---------------------------------------------------------------------
# Fix the DNS servers (NOT permanent)
#[root@virtual]
cat > /etc/resolv.conf << EOF
search roe.ac.uk
nameserver 129.215.166.13
nameserver 129.215.70.239
EOF
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# Update the system.
#[root@virtual]
yum update -y
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