Bonus Chapter
Lab Setup and Installing VMs
This is a Bonus Chapter from my “Basic Security Testing with Kali Linux, 4th Edition” book. Replicated here to help those who aren’t familiar with setting up VM’s. But also, to give the readers a taste of the Basic Kali book. If you enjoyed this book, check out the rest of my “Security Testing with Kali Linux” series – along with this and the Basic book, it also includes “Advanced Security Testing with Kali Linux” and “Security Testing with Raspberry Pi, 2nd Edition”
In this chapter we will cover a lab setup for the book. I used basically the same lab setup type that I have used in all my previous books - a complete virtual lab setup on one host system, with a couple optional systems when needed. As mentioned in the introduction, I wanted to keep this setup simple and as cost affordable as possible. Setting up our testing lab using virtual machines (VMs) makes it very...