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So what exactly are virtual machines, so virtual machines are exactly what they sound like, machines

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that are running virtually on your computer now with this technology, you can pretty much run a virtual

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machine with any operating system, no matter what operating system.

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You know, your computer is running.

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The virtual machine is considered a computer that is totally separate from your computer that you're

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running it on.

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So we're going to be using this technology to create our hacker machine in our hacking environment.

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So some of the hardware considerations that you once you consider is going to be pretty much the hardware

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aspects.

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So it's convenient, but we got to make sure computers can take it, you know?

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So I recommend the following specs at a minimum, you know, for your computer to run multiple virtual

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machines comfortably without too much lag, it's just slowing you down.

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It's just going to be annoying and hard to hack.

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So first, you want to make sure that your hard drive has at least 20 percent of percent of your storage

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available.

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And this is because I've seen with my own hard drive that when the space gets really, really low,

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it doesn't run extremely slow and that's really bad.

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And you just have to start deleting stuff and then it's just going to fill back up and it's slow again.

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It's annoying.

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So preferably, you know, start with the hardest, has maybe like 20 percent plus, you know, storage

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available.

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And preferably it'll be a solid state drive.

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But, you know, the hard disk drives work as well.

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But I like to see solid state drives.

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I literally put my laptop.

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I used to be so slow that I put NASA's DNA and it's like a brand new 20/20 computer pretty much.

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And it's computers like four years old.

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So I recommend a solid state drive.

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The hard disk drives work to, you know, if your computer isn't too bad or too old.

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So you also want to make sure that you have at least a game around.

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But the more that you have, the better off you're going to be.

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I personally have 16 gigabytes of RAM in my laptop.

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You could do more, you could do the same 12.

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But eight is probably going to be the minimum because we're going to be doing a lot when we put a lot

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of strain on our laptops.

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All right.

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On my desktop computers.

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So how exactly do we run virtual machines on our computer?

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So to run the virtual machines, you're going to need a virtual machine player.

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And for this course, we're going to be using something called virtual box because you can run it on

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Windows, Mac and even Linux.

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It's very versatile.

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So it's pretty an application that just allows you to load and run images of machines on your computer.

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And I'm providing you right here the link so you can go to a really quick in your browser and download

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it.

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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

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bring you up to the virtual box Web site.

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And depending on what you have, they give you a Mac, you're going to hit the OS X HOHs for Linux him.

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And he's using the fixed pick.

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Which one for me?

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I have a Windows computer and I have it downloaded already is right here pinned to my taskbar.

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But you just click it and then you're going to download it.

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It's just an X file and then you're going to want to run that and just go through the installation process

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just like any other software, OK?