This is the virtual machines architecture diagram.
It'll help you understand the network structure of the virtual machines that are installed in the laboratory
environment of this course.
So let's have a look at the whole picture.
Host Is your computer on the network that you access the Internet via Wi-Fi access point or a wired
connection?
You will install one of the virtualization platforms such as VMware or Oracle VirtualBox on your host
machine.
So there are five vulnerable machines that will be used as victims throughout this course.
Kali, Linux, Windows XP, Windows 8 and Owasp.
Broken Web applications.
Then here we set the network mode to Nat Network and that connects all the vulnerable machines in the
same network.
Now, you may notice here there are similar Nat modes in VirtualBox network settings.
Nat mode and Nat network mode.
So if you're going to use Oracle VirtualBox, be sure to select Nat network mode and then set the same
network for each machine.
That way the virtual machines will be on the same network and they can be accessed from one to the other.
Now, if you're going to use VMware, simply select nat mode.