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Requirements for labs

All the pre-requisites to follow the labs

System pre-requisites

You need to be on Windows (7+), Linux or MacOS.

VT-x/AMD-v virtualization must be enabled in BIOS

check with Windows 10 task manager

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Note

We will need Windows 10 for Wsl2 and Docker Desktop in future sections

Warning

You need the Administrative rights to be able to install software
Don't forget to switch to admin command on Windows

We recommend installing chocolatey Windows package manager to make it easy.
Read this Why chocolatey

If you are convinced, please follow this: Install chocolatey

To see software installed locally: 

   choco list -l

To search a package remotely: 

   choco search <package_name>

For people allergic to command prompt ( bad for automation from my point of view ), there is a chocolaty GUI.

Software needed

You need to install this list of software

  • Vagrant - to build and manage virtual machines easily. This will "pilot" virtualbox.

  • Oracle Virtualbox - the famous Type 2 hypervisor

  • (Windows only) Mobaxterm - a beautiful cygwin package toolbox - an alternative to putty

Windows installation

We do recommend also to install git, to clone source on your computer.

   choco install -y mobaxterm vagrant git

Note

We advise installing virtualbox manually instead of using chocolatey
Url: Virtualbox download

Issues

Windows 11 family issue

Links:

Seems the solution is to: disable Core isolation in Windows Security