Download the Virtual machine:
Get the image:
It should be started as a normal cdrom image from either VirtualBox, VMPlayer or Qemu/KVM.
On Linux you can use the image with KVM like this:
This will give you a virtual machine with 4 GigaByte memory, 4 Virtual Intel SMP cores using hardware CPU emulation and then starts from the virtual ISO Image for this course.
BTW: On MS-Windows and Mac the easiest option is using VirtualBox.
Note that for all operating systems the "Hardware Virtualisation" should be enabled in the BIOS, not only for Qemu/KVM but just as well for VirtualBox and VMWare ! This is often already done on modern laptops, but better safe than sorry. If you can only create a 32-bit virtual machine in e.g. VirtualBox then this is a VERY strong indication that Hardware Virtualisation is NOT yet enabled.
Make sure you have at least 4 GigaByte memory available for the VM or you may run out of memory, especially when you also want to start a browser (Firefox) or another large program (default for many VMs is often 1GByte or even less).
The system is installed on a (virtual) CDROM, and thus NOT persistent, so everything that you create or modify is lost after you shut it down! To save things you e.g. mail it to yourself using firefox or upload to DropBox, Surfnet (using owncloud) or WeTransfer before closing the virtual machine.
If the system locks on the screensaver you can simply unlock it using:
username: live
password: live
