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Post-secondary institutions are looking for ways to provide virtual computing labs to students. Using the open source systems Apache VCL and OpenStack, as well as a preexisting OpenStack provisioning module for Apache VCL, we implemented a pilot project to provide virtual computing labs. As the pilot continued we altered and improved our implementation and discovered new requirements. These imp...