
The ova file was created on VMware Workstation 16 Player Import the file WW2.16_Ubuntu20.04_Server.ova into your virtualization software package (e.g. Installing the WeBWorK Virtual Machine Image If you do edit the WW2.16_Ubuntu20.04_Server.ofv file, you will also have to compute the new SHA1 checksum and replace the old one in the WW2.16_Ubuntu20.04_Server.mf file for the files to be usable.


You then can look at (and possibly edit) the human readable WW2.16_Ubuntu20.04_Server.ofv file. You can extract the files in WW2.16_Ubuntu20.04_Server.ova with the command ova file may fail whereas importing from the. You can import a virtual machine either from an. mf file contains SHA1 checksums for the above files. ovf file is an XML file which describes the packaged virtual machine and is human-readable. ova file is simply a tar bundle containing an. Verify the SHA1 checksum of your downloaded file WW2.16_Ubuntu20.04_Server.ova agrees with the one in WW2.16_Ubuntu20.04_. The 64 bit distribution should work with most modern cpu's. There are more detailed instructions for Ubuntu Server 20.04 and WeBWorK 2.16 at Also it is imperative that you CHANGE THE PASSWORDS for the OS user wwadmin (who has sudo privileges), for the MariaDB user webworkWrite who has access to MariaDB, for the WeBWorK user admin who has admin privileges and for the WeBWorK user profa who has professor privileges (see below). If it uses static IP addresses, you will have to configure networking. If your network uses DHCP, networking will be automatically configured for your system. Installing from WW2.16 Ubuntu20.04 Server Virtual Machine Image OverviewĪfter installing from the WeBWorK Virtual Machine Image, you will have a full fledged Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS system with WeBWorK 2.16, Apache2, MariaDB, R server, lighttpd, log rotation, etc.

