Start with a VM where now being where has made it very difficult for you to find the free version of
VM where so both virtual box and VM ware have free versions now.
VM where workstation player which was formerly known as play pro is the desktop virtualization application
that is available for free for personal use only.
Now if you Google it very difficult to find.
They don't want you to have the free version.
Clearly they want you to have the painful version which is V.M. where workstation Pro.
So in order for you to find the free version you can go to this fake here which will help give you a
better understanding of what the player does.
But if you scroll down you can find the download link there and that will take you through to here.
These are the downloads for the free version of the latest version which is here it's 12 at the moment.
When you look at this it may be a new version so you're going to have to really check the Web site to
find out where the latest version is.
The latest free version for noncommercial use which is B.M. where workstation player and you have a
Windows version here.
And we have a Linux version.
So you want to download the version that you want to download so that you can install it.
There is a VM web version for Mac and that's called V.M. where fusion and BMF fusion pro you do have
to pay for that.
So that's for Mac users.
Now you want to compare the difference between Vieng where a workstation player and VM where workstation
pro there is a link here which is which is compair and will talk about the differences between VM where
workstation player and workstation pro but essentially with the player you have less functionality.
Now this won't affect you really for a test environment but it is going to affect you when it comes
to security and privacy.
And we'll talk more about that later.
So download the file from here.
And you're going to end up with your BMI play.
Obviously we're going through it here as to how to install that with Windows.
But it is pretty similar in the other operating systems.
Next set the terms on the enhanced keyboard driver when you remove these.
But that's up to you.
You do definitely want updates if you're going to use this later on as a method of isolation for security.
So that's installed so you can see that pretty simple.
There we have the player
and this was picked up that they already have a Windows 7 virtual machine on here.
So that's because I went here while it was installing and I wish I showed you before selecting the Windows
7 operating system which you can pick any that I wanted.
I should move this from the library and show you how I would add it from this web site I would want
to open the virtual machine because it's giving me a file in a format that requires me to open it.
There's the file
OVL file open
import Now this might take quite a bit of time depending on the speed of your machine.
So that's now installed.
If you click on it and click play that will now start the operating system.
If you right click on it and settings you can see all the various virtual devices that Vincenzo Now
you may or may not have a network adapter that's been detected and placed here if you haven't then you
need to add it here so that network it up to next and then select the appropriate option here.
Now this is a crucial setting when you want to do any form of looking at network traffic.
Now in some sections of this we're going to look at network traffic use impractically analyzers called
Wireshark.
Now in order to do that you must have it in bridged mode bridge mode means that you connect as it says
here directly to the physical network fuse and that's you're using this machine here as a form of gateway
which means you won't be able to see the network traffic.
So we need this to bridged if we're looking at network traffic a lot as we already have here.
And these are the options here because we've downloaded a virtual image.
It means we haven't had to go through any of these settings deciding on what operating system is etc..
So when we start the operating system
and depending on what you've downloaded it will already have something called VM when tools installed
VM Ware tools or software drivers that enabled the display to work correctly.
Your speed to work correctly.
No the sort of drive is that you would have say if you bought a Sony laptop Sony you a whole bunch of
Sony type drivers and you have the equivalent VM ware type drivers which are called the them word tools.
So you like to get prompted if you don't have those VM Ware tools installed.
Or more likely if they're out of day if they are now you want to go here manage day VM Ware tools and
go through the process of installing those tools and it's giving you some instructions here about if
you don't see it being installed then go to the set up that easy.
So go to that process install it just like you install any other software.
There again you can see it here.
And we install it
now saying it needs to update.
The reason I say that is because obviously VM tools are already installed and those processes are running
because of
Marigot is finished and it's asking to review and of course now you've got your operating system whatever
it might be.
You can play around with it to your heart's content and don't worry if something goes wrong.
Now if you look here you can see that you can pause this week and suspend quit.
Yes he was paused it
and that essentially takes the memory makes a copy of it and then you can restart it from that pause
position.
Now one of the downsides with the VM where a workstation player is that you cannot do something what's
called SNAP snapshots and a snapshot is taking a copy of the current state of that virtual machine.
So it takes everything that's in memory and it takes a copy of the hard disk and it creates an entire
copy of it.
This means you can make a mistake and then revert back and you can have a whole tree of different snapshots
where you're making different changes and different updates.
And you cannot do that with this.
And that's a little bit of a pain and you may or may not want that feature.
Virtual baulks does do that however.
And I would suggest you play around with both of them to see which one you like.
And if you're going to take virtualization more seriously you may end up buying the pro version of VM
Ware because that has more features than virtual box.
So you have to see what you end up liking.
To install via a disc or an ISO image you need to either get hold of the ISO image or the disk here
is an example of going to Debian's Web site downloading from here.
And with this ISO image and then I want to click home here file new virtual machine and if I have a
physical disk then I want to put it in the drive and make sure that this virtual machine can access
it or I can get the ISO image which is the more common.
And so if I browse here onto my downloads there's the ISO image open not and click next.
Call it what I like.
This is for testing purposes.
The settings don't really matter.
You don't need to worry about the size here is it going to allocate 20 gigabytes for the drive.
But what it does it starts small on your desk and then gets bigger.
It uses more.
So it literally is a virtual disk and it is better to split the disk into multiple files.
But if you read here you can see what it says placing that this makes it easier to move the virtual
machine to the computer but may reduce performance with very large disks.
Next you can customize this.
We already talked about this setting change just bridged
finish and then you go for the process of installing the operating system as you would normally.
So you may or may not be familiar with how you install Debian or if this is Windows that would come
up with the windows options for how you install with Windows
and this is how we stole Debian.
This is why it's better to get these virtual images when you're testing say you have to get this whole
install process so close that.