In this video, we will go through our lab, designing the lab that we need to practice all the videos
and lectures throughout this course.
So we have two options to design our lab.
Option one is that you have a computer, a desktop or a laptop at home.
That computer could be could either be running Windows operating system or Mac operating system.
Then what do you do?
You install a virtualization software on it.
So this way you don't have to lose the main host operating system that is right now running on your
computer.
The virtualization software allows you to run a multiple operating system on top of your main operating
system.
So the virtualization software, there are many of them.
The main two ones are VMware Player and Oracle VirtualBox.
These are the two free virtualization software that you could use to set up your lab.
Once you have any one of those to download and install, then we'll go ahead and create our virtual
machine on it.
That virtual machine will allow us to create and install our Linux operating system on top of that.
So that's our simple first option.
The second option that you could use is the same way that you have a desktop or a laptop at home, running
Windows or Mac, and then instead of installing a virtualization software on your computer, you could
actually create an account on one of the cloud services that are out there.
The cloud services could be either a AWS or Google Cloud or any of the cloud services that gave you
a free account or free access to create virtual machines with the resources that you need.
So once you have that, then we should follow the same way that will create a virtual machine on cloud
services and then we will install the Linux operating system over that virtual machine.
So these are the two options you have.
You could pick either one for this course and any of the one will work.
But for if you wanted to follow exactly step by step that I'm going through, that I'm going to pick
option one.
But I have provided instructions for every steps that I have listed here.