I am in the process of establishing a home lab to gain practical experience in Cyber Security. I have already made progress by downloading Oracle Virtual Machine and setting up Kali Linux. This is my first attempt at blogging, and I didn’t realize I could share my work and advancements with those interested, so… Here we go!
- My next step is setting up a new Machine with Windows 10 which is going to be the target attacked, I have downloaded a Windows x64 ISO image from Microsoft.com
- Open Oracle VM and click New, I name it Windows10 and select the downloaded Windows ISO image to mount it and install it in this new machine.
- .Select a username and password, something easy just in case, username1 and password 123.
- Am going to allocate the recommended resources for RAM, CPU and Storage, don’t need anything crazy.
- Follow the prompts as if Am installing windows on a Physical PC, note you’ll need to buy a key from Microsoft in order to have a working Windows OS.
- and voila, I wasn’t sure if my PC could take it but yes, 2 VMs plus the physical one seems to be working. Now everything is set to start doing some research.
Update: Since I did this a few weeks before actually launching my web blog I didn’t track any of the apps I played with that day. Am studying as much as I have free time every day so stay tuned for more info and details. Here is a screenshot of both VMs running that day
