Hello everybody and welcome to this tutorial. Today, I will show you how to
install VirtualBox within a Windows environment. So, previously, I've showed
you how to do it in a Linux environment, and it is a bit more complex there
because you do need to add repositories, and then pull the packet from the
repositories. You can also pull it from the website but that's not recommended.
However, in Windows the process is fairly straightforward. It's fairly simple. You
just go ahead open up your favorite browser, mine is Firefox, and go ahead and type
in Virtual Box, press Enter, and go ahead and open up their website. It takes a bit to
load, don't know what the problem is, perhaps my current connection is slow.
Never mind. Just click on downloads, and choose VirtualBox for 4.3.22 for Windows
hosts. So just go ahead and click on it. And I don't want to download it now
because I've downloaded prior to this tutorial in order to save some time, but
since you didn't just go ahead and click on save file, and it will download it. The
download process will start. I'm just going to go ahead and navigate over to
my downloads folder. I have it right here. I'm just gonna go ahead and double click
on it in order to initiate the installation wizard. Keep in mind
that this Windows is actually a virtual machine, and I am
conducting an installation of VirtualBox within a machine that is being run within yet another
virtual machine. This would be a proper way to name this situation. You can see I've
minimized it and I can pull it now around, but it works just fine. The
installation process will go no problems. It will go fairly smoothly without any
problems. So just go ahead and click Next, and these options, you can actually
browse for a different installation location here, but the default one will
do just fine. Just go ahead and click Next, create shortcuts, register file
Association, sure why not. Click Next. This morning it's basically
telling you that it will reset network connection, so if you don't want
that to happen you might hold the installation process, or something like
that. But, don't worry even if you're downloading something, it's not a big
deal. If you're interfaces are reset, your connection goes down, and then it comes
back up again and your download might just stop for a while, and that's it.
Continue on later. Anyway, just go ahead and click yes, install, and there we go.
Don't worry about this it's not an error, or something like that, it's just windows
asking for our permission. Anyway, the installation
process has started here with no problems, and as I was talking about it previously
this is a virtual machine within a virtual machine. The installation of the
program will go fine, no problems, however if you plan to run another virtual
machine within this VirtualBox, within this virtual machine, you might encounter
some problems. So, start the VirtualBox after installation finish, sure, why not.
And as I said, you might encounter some problems performance wise because, I mean,
you would need to have crazy good hardware in order to accomplish this
feat. I believe I could do it, but to the point that the virtual OS would function,
but to a very limited extent, and that's it. I don't think I could actually do any
meaningful work with it. That would be quite difficult to achieve. But, in any
case, we have our VirtualBox manager here. Here I'm spinning it around, and the
process of creating pretty much new virtual machines is exactly the same,
more or less, the options have the same places. So you'll be able
to follow this tutorial through even if you are using Windows and have created a
virtual machine, for the most part, anyway. I'm just gonna go ahead and close it now.
I will uninstall it here because it's completely pointless for the time being.
But, in any case, I hope that this was the helpful to all the
Windows users out there because let's face it, a lot of people do use Windows.
However, for pentesting purposes, for ethical
hacking, windows is not the best operating system to use out there.
Primarily because it's a lot harder to become anonymous with windows, to
anonymize yourself, and furthermore most of the pentesting hacking
tools were actually designed for unix, linux like, environments to work in
combination with their terminals. However, the choice of the operating system is
completely up to you. I will be working with Fedora Linux, and I will most likely
be using this Windows machine as some sort of a victim which we will be
attacking and exploiting. Anyway, I bid you all farewell, and I hope to see you
in the next tutorial.