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CS VM Farm - Power on or reset VMs
Overview
This article provides steps to power on or reset student-assigned virtual machines in the CS VM farm.
Power on or reset your VM
- Connect to the campus VPN
- Navigate to https://vc.cs.illinois.edu/ui in a browser
- Log in with your NetID and password
- Input your VM name in the search bar at the top - your course staff will have assigned you a VM, i.e. sp21-cs100-01.cs.illinois.edu
- Select the VM from the search results
- Select the 'Actions' dropdown menu, navigate to Power --> 'Power On' (or use the shortcut Ctrl + Alt + B)
- Select 'Reset' if the VM is in an unusable state (or use the shortcut Ctrl + Alt + T)
- Select 'Reset' if the VM is in an unusable state (or use the shortcut Ctrl + Alt + T)
- Give the VM a couple of minutes to boot up, and then connect to the VM
- Connect to the campus VPN
- SSH into the VM (i.e. ssh NetID@sp21-cs100-01.cs.illinois.edu)
- Contact your course staff if you have trouble logging in to your VM
- We strongly recommend reviewing the following pages to be familiar with the basics of using Linux: