So what exactly are virtual machines, so virtual machines are exactly what they sound like, machines
that are running virtually on your computer now with this technology, you can pretty much run a virtual
machine with any operating system, no matter what operating system.
You know, your computer is running.
The virtual machine is considered a computer that is totally separate from your computer that you're
running it on.
So we're going to be using this technology to create our hacker machine in our hacking environment.
So some of the hardware considerations that you once you consider is going to be pretty much the hardware
aspects.
So it's convenient, but we got to make sure computers can take it, you know?
So I recommend the following specs at a minimum, you know, for your computer to run multiple virtual
machines comfortably without too much lag, it's just slowing you down.
It's just going to be annoying and hard to hack.
So first, you want to make sure that your hard drive has at least 20 percent of percent of your storage
available.
And this is because I've seen with my own hard drive that when the space gets really, really low,
it doesn't run extremely slow and that's really bad.
And you just have to start deleting stuff and then it's just going to fill back up and it's slow again.
It's annoying.
So preferably, you know, start with the hardest, has maybe like 20 percent plus, you know, storage
available.
And preferably it'll be a solid state drive.
But, you know, the hard disk drives work as well.
But I like to see solid state drives.
I literally put my laptop.
I used to be so slow that I put NASA's DNA and it's like a brand new 20/20 computer pretty much.
And it's computers like four years old.
So I recommend a solid state drive.
The hard disk drives work to, you know, if your computer isn't too bad or too old.
So you also want to make sure that you have at least a game around.
But the more that you have, the better off you're going to be.
I personally have 16 gigabytes of RAM in my laptop.
You could do more, you could do the same 12.
But eight is probably going to be the minimum because we're going to be doing a lot when we put a lot
of strain on our laptops.
All right.
On my desktop computers.
So how exactly do we run virtual machines on our computer?
So to run the virtual machines, you're going to need a virtual machine player.
And for this course, we're going to be using something called virtual box because you can run it on
Windows, Mac and even Linux.
It's very versatile.
So it's pretty an application that just allows you to load and run images of machines on your computer.
And I'm providing you right here the link so you can go to a really quick in your browser and download
it.
But I'm going to show you guys what it looks like as well so you can click the link and it's going to
bring you up to the virtual box Web site.
And depending on what you have, they give you a Mac, you're going to hit the OS X HOHs for Linux him.
And he's using the fixed pick.
Which one for me?
I have a Windows computer and I have it downloaded already is right here pinned to my taskbar.
But you just click it and then you're going to download it.
It's just an X file and then you're going to want to run that and just go through the installation process
just like any other software, OK?