All right.
So in order to be successful in this course we are going to be utilizing what is called a virtual machine.
Now virtual machines are known as the M's for short.
And a VM is just a machine.
On top of a machine.
And to give you an example I'm actually running this Windows 10 instance that you see here on top of
my Windows 10 instant.
So here you can see if I scroll up that I have a Windows 10 machine.
I also have a Linux machine sitting here.
If I were to D maximize this you can see that I'm actually running here a Windows machine in the back.
This is my wife and I.
And you come through here we just blow it back up and we're back inside of our machine.
So a virtual machine is just a machine inside of a machine.
So what we're going to be doing is we're going to be utilizing this to build out labs that way we don't
have to actually have a bunch of hardware we can just use this for our our course and run what we need
to on top of our own machine already.
Now this can get resource intensive.
So if you are only utilizing something like 8 gigabytes of RAM then you might have some issues with
this but you can still follow along when we get into the Active Directory portion you might run into
issues if you'd not have at least 16 gigabytes of RAM to utilize.
But we'll worry about that when we get there.
There's still plenty of ways to follow along throughout this whole course.
So another thing to note is that I use VM every single day.
This machine that you see here is actually my day to day pen testing machine.
So I run a Kelly Linux instance on top of my windows machine and utilize that to do penetration testing.
So I'm going to demonstrate that to you and how we're gonna build out our labs with that and a lot of
us in the industry run through arms as opposed to running it directly on metal or on a machine.
So in order to utilize virtual machines we first need some sort of virtual machine software to play
So there are two different ways that we can do this.
If you are on a Windows machine or a Linux machine you can utilize VMware Workstation player.
Now if you type in VM where workstation player in Google the first one here that says download VM or
workstation player you just click on that.
And if you are in a Mac environment you're going to be utilizing Oracle virtual box.
So if you type in Oracle virtual box you come here and you go to downloads you have your option there
as well.
So in this course I will be using VM where workstation player I'm going to be running it on top of Windows.
If you are using Mac that is absolutely fine you're going to be following along just the same.
All you need to be able to do is follow the same instructions that I give you and you will be OK.
So if you scroll down here you can see try workstation player for Windows or try workstation player
for Linux.
Go ahead and just like Download Now that should bring of a download and go ahead and say that if you're
doing virtual box.
Go ahead and download for OS X I will download the Windows version just so that we can we could see
what that looks like as well.
So I'll say both of these so let's view our downloads and we've got VM where workstation player here
I'm going to go ahead and open this one and we're going to install this
and this will be very point and click.
So next accept the agreement possibly give away our first child.
We should go ahead and install the enhanced keyboard driver while we have this and then we don't need
to enjoy join any improvement programs or check for product update.
That's OK.
We will install desktop start menu.
You check check your preferences as you like it.
I'm just going to install this and this should just finish here in just a second OK.
Then you'll be brought to the screen once everything's done.
Should take about a minute or two and we're going to go ahead and hit finish and it's going to want
a restart to take effect.
You can go ahead and restart your system.
I'm going to say no right now.
Let's go ahead and install a virtual box if you are a Mac user will hit next next year next.
And yes.
And install accept and again very point and click with the installation select install and any options
that do pop up.
And then we can start Oracle VM if we want.
Let's go ahead and just start that.
This is what Oracle VM looks like.
And let's see if we can start the VM where player here even though we need to restart
and this is what VM where workstation player looks like.
So here you could see that we have virtual machines we can create new virtual machines open ones et
cetera.
We'll get into that in the next video.
So again if you are using Windows or Linux This is probably what your view is going to look like for
the rest of the time if you are using Oracle on a Mac.
This is what your view is going to look like another site.
Pro tip here is that I am using workstation pro and I might utilized this in some instances throughout
the course.
Other instances I'll be utilizing the workstation player.
They are not much of a difference especially in the beginning when we get into the active directory
portion.
It might actually be worth it for you all to download the VM where pro trial because the trials 30 days
and you can utilize that to get through some sections and actually have nice little windows here too
to be clean and just have a pro edition.
You can do everything that may show you in the course on the player.
It just is that you have to open if you want to run more than one machine you'll just have to reopen
the VM where workstation player are several times to run multiple machines but that's OK.
It just won't look like this nice clean layout where you can transfer between machines like I can do
just here.
So with that being said let's go ahead and move on to the next video we're going to be installing Kelly
Linux onto our VM where it workstation player.