Students sitting their final exam in KOMP6789 — Decrepit Computing Systems — in one of CSE's hyper-modern computer labs.

VirtualExam (vx)

The Virtual Exam environment (VX) is an implementation of an X11-based, limited, secure, firewalled, chroot-ed environment in which users (students) can sit CSE exams.

• Operation
• Administration
  • Do not rm -fr a gaol!!
  • Auto-login / auto-creation of a student for testing
  • Persistent little devils, aren't they?
  • Cleaning up after an exam
• Tools
• Setting up an exam
• vx.conf
• Files and locations
• Identifying exam sessions
• Differences between old and new
• Security considerations
• Resource considerations
• Gotchas: oddnesses, weirdnesses and other things strange
• Loading
• stuffexam
• 2019 upgrades
• 2019 upgrade - resource limits
• 2019 upgrade - stuffexam enhancements