Designing our lab
In this section, we will start building our virtual hacking lab. We will design and structure our lab based on our requirements for the exercises and demonstrations in this book.
To set up our lab infrastructure, we need to leverage virtualization technology. This will allow us to avoid any additional costs related to hardware and networking, as we will be running all of our guest operating systems and configuring our virtual network on one host.
Before we get started with designing and structuring our lab, we need to explore virtualization as a concept and as a practice. First, we will learn about the importance of and the role of virtualization in building and configuring our virtual hacking lab.
Virtualization
Virtualization is the process of running a virtualized instance of an operating system with an abstracted hardware layer. Virtualization facilitates the running of multiple operating systems on a single computer, or host, simultaneously. It was...
