Download the dsci-lab OVA file

install VirtualBox

Download Oracle VM VirtualBox

• for legacy reasonons we (J.Busse) still use 7.1 (still under active maintenance): 7.1.x: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Download_Old_Builds_7_1

  • this page also contains the respective extension pack

• the current version 7.2 also should work: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

Install software and extension pack into your host operating system.

Download OVA-File WS 2025

Download OVA-File (essentilally the compressed hard disk of the virtual machine, plus some metadata):

• https://www.jbusse.de/vm/dsci-lab_ws2025.ova

• size of OVA file: 15 800 431 104 (about 16 GB)

• size of imported machine, i.e. initial hard disk: about 25 GB

• the webserve asks for credentials:

  • user: dsci

  • pass: XXXXX

AKTUELL 2025-09-20: Das Passwort für den Download der OVA findet sich prominent in den Moodle-Räumen zu den Veranstaltungen

• https://www.jbusse.de/python-101/index.html

• https://www.jbusse.de/python-101/python-101-crashkurs.html (auf der Homepage von Python-101, aber eigener Moodle-Raum

Check the sha256 hash value:

sha256sum dsci-lab_ws2025.ova 
# yields: **6505b33f976cba402da50ac4604e66e72b9806cf257af0a777edfe9e869d936b** dsci-lab_ws2025.ova

Select VirtualBox > Datei > Appliance importieren. Import OVA file.

Boot the virtual machine. Login into XUbuntu with

• user: dsci

• password: dscidsci

Start firefox (“Internetnavigator”). You should be able to browse the internet.

IMPORTANT: Update machine immediately! Open an terminal and enter:

sudo apt update; sudo apt upgrade; sudo apt autoremove