1.1.1.4 Lab - Installing The CyberOps Workstation Virtual Machine
1.1.1.4 Lab - Installing The CyberOps Workstation Virtual Machine
Objectives
Part 1: Prepare a Personal Computer for Virtualization
Part 2: Import a Virtual Machine into VirtualBox Inventory
Background / Scenario
Computing power and resources have increased tremendously over the last 10 years. A benefit of having
multicore processors and large amounts of RAM is the ability to use virtualization. With virtualization, one or
more virtual computers operate inside one physical computer. Virtual computers that run within physical
computers are called virtual machines. Virtual machines are often called guests, and physical computers are
often called hosts. Anyone with a modern computer and operating system can run virtual machines.
A virtual machine image file has been created for you to install on your computer. In this lab, you will
download and import this image file using a desktop virtualization application, such as VirtualBox.
Required Resources
Computer with a minimum of 2 GB of RAM and 8 GB of free disk space
High speed Internet access to download Oracle VirtualBox and the virtual machine image file
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Note: If your network is not configured with DHCP services, click Change Network Settings and select
NAT in the Attached to dropdown box. The network settings can also be access via Settings in the
Oracle VirtualBox Manager or in the virtual machine menu, select Devices > Network > Network
Settings. You may need to disable and enable the network adaptor for the change to take effect.
c. Click OK. A new window will appear, and the virtual machine boot process will start.
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d. When the boot process is complete, the virtual machine will ask for a username and password. Use the
following credentials to log into the virtual machine:
Username: analyst
Password: cyberops
You will be presented with a desktop environment: there is a launcher bar at the bottom, icons on the
desktop, and an application menu at the top.
Note: The window running the virtual machine is a completely different computer than your host. Functions,
such as copy and paste, will not work between the two without special software tools installed. Notice the
keyboard and mouse focus. When you click inside the virtual machine window, your mouse and keyboard will
operate the guest operating system. Your host operating system will no longer detect keystrokes or mouse
movements. Press the right CTRL key to return keyboard and mouse focus to the host operating system.
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Reflection
What are the advantages and disadvantages of using a virtual machine?
Advantages:
Controlled and Sandboxed environment.
Run other programs in a VM that may not necessarily be in the same OS as the host machine (e.g. running
Windows or Mac OS X VM on a Linux host machine, and vice versa).
Allows to take snapshots to save machine states that will allow you to revert back to a previous state should
an error occur.
Disadvantages:
With the statement of the VM being "isolated", it also depends on how you configure your machine. If your VM
has stuff like shared clipboard/file folders or if there's a feature that allows hardware passthrough (available to
a select amount of hardware) it may still expose your host machine to the same threats as if you will with a
VM.
Increased memory and processor usage as part of overhead introduced by the VM.
If the host is down, the VM will be inaccessible.
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