VPL Jail System’s documentation

The VPL-Jail-System serves as an execution sandbox used by the plugin VPL for Moodle. This sandbox provides a secure interactive and non-iterative execution of student’s code written in different programming languages. Non-iterative execution allows the testing and evaluation of the code.

For more details about VPL, visit the VPL home page or the VPL plugin page at Moodle.

Contents

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Requirements
  • 2.1. Software requirements
  • 2.2. Hardware requirements
• 3. Installation
  • 3.1. Selecting the hardware
  • 3.2. Preparing the system
  • 3.3. Getting VPL-Jail-System
  • 3.4. Running the installer
  • 3.5. Adding the jail/execution server to the VPL plugin at Moodle
  • 3.6. Updating VPL-Jail-System
  • 3.7. Updating the software in the jail
  • 3.8. Removing VPL-Jail-System
• 4. Configuration
  • 4.1. Changing configuration
  • 4.2. Configuration file format
  • 4.3. Configuration parameters
• 5. Troubleshooting
  • 5.1. Checking your server
  • 5.2. Troubleshooting

• 5. Software license