Best introduction into VirtualBox and its configuration! Not only to prepare penetration testing. Please try to skip repeating yourself over and over again.
Great stuff. Good way to keep people safe and discourage them from doing anything stupid. At least for a good long while. Plenty to learn in this environment. But it's starting to dawn on me that there are going to be some obvious limitations on the types of attacks we can test virtually. That's where people will be tempted to go off the reservation. These are great classes Eli I appreciate it. I've been away from computing for longer than I'd like to admit and I'm really enjoying catching up.
I have done my own computer lab at home. I tried going virtual but with the machines I have I'd be wasting more time than it should, so I bought me some old machines (3 servers and one PC besides my laptop) and now I am happy with my lab. I have to say, hard metal is still king for me. Wouldn't go about it any other way. But virtual is decent if you need a BASIC setup, not an efficient one. That being said, I watched this video for the networking. Thank you for this video.
if your familiar with virtual machines and have a firm understanding of network and security fundamentals the meat and potatoes of ethical hacking starts at 19:00 GREAT video Eli keep up the good work! I put you up there with Professor Messer
Great I am going to set up a lab just like this .. I even know I need a 16gb ram . I have got a security job and need to train myself FAST so this is a major help . Thank you
Just recently started watching your videos/tutorials. Love it!! Good knowledge. I am CompTIA A+ certified and am learning a lot from you that I didn't in class(of course I only scraped the top with this industry standard). Thank you for the videos. Good job and keep up the good work!!!
I like your teaching style just the way it is, despite one or two commenting on the visual portion. I myself am a visual learner so I applaud you for including such methods in this video.
"it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2." ... ... ...
Thank you! I started on quickbasic and fortan back in 1976, when I was in high school. This is marvelous work. Cheers and many thanks for the primer to open my thought processes. Cheers - C458
thanks man we are just setting up a uk qualification in this subject and this will help our students establish some of the testing environments required.
Actually came here to see what you had to say about whether or not a VirtualBox OS can end up fuckin up my own computer. Thanks for the info on how to make sure it can't, you really helped me out!
Very useful information - now I know how much juice I need, what to do in what order, etc. This will be way cheaper than setting up a physical network to practice on in the basement!
Dude, you can really talk man!! But E.F. Hunton and you have something in common... Thanks for all the videos... Glad there's is people like you, who can break things down to the basics.
Eli - Thanks man. Just... Thank you. You're awesome for doing this for us. I'm really starting to enjoy "hacking" as a hobby (tinkering with networking). It's so much fun! THANK YOU BROTHA!
TCP/IP is part off a protocol stack there is lots off info on this on the net, The Internet protocol suite is the set of communications protocols used for the Internet and similar networks, and generally the most popular protocol stack for wide area networks. It is commonly known as TCP/IP, because of its most important protocols: Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and Internet Protocol (IP), which were the first networking protocols defined in this standard. It is occasionally known as the DoD
Hmm, I don't think Eli can do 'short and snappy', redhotsun51 - he's got way too much energy! Absolutely great presentation, Eli. When I'm teaching, I always approach it from the point of the lowest common denominator; someone will always pick up info they didn't have before and that's what I took away from this! Thanks much.
I think it's time to leave the orange shirts behind... Even I have to admit that between the beard and the orange shirt I do look a bit like I'm on work release from Gitmo...
On my main computer with 8G memory I use vmWare Workstation for virtualization and mostly Linux instances for testing things. I give them either 768M or 1G ram and less than 10G disk space. If I use a text-only Linux, no more than 512M memory. You can also use snapshots to create an instance in time that you can go back to if you want to test something that might break.
Uber Newb here mate. Ultimately I would like to get into using BackTrack. From the readings I have done it seems I am not ready for such an advanced system. What OS is the best for a entry level user to learn and experiment with? Also you mentioned that you have "beginner" videos but i didnt come across them. Forums have helped, but there is alot of more advanced jargon being used that I don't understand. Any advice would be appreciated. Many Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us newbies
I agree VB fits nearly all my needs however the USB pass-through with the alfa NHA is faulty. There is an open support Ticket #9511. It is 20 months old and no action. For all my wireless stuff I use Kali on a separate laptop.
Depends. You have 30 days to activate any installation of Windows 7. Assuming your task can be completed within that time frame you will be doing so legally.
Around 32:40 you started talking about a clone incase you screw up. I'm confused why you wouldn't just use snapshots to revert back and forth to. It saves space and is an easier process then having several clones sitting around
I had an internship where I worked from home and learned independently. You offer a nice networking 101, that suffices to cover most important topics. Where do you find the good networking concept schools are?
Well done Eli, good point about the possibility of backdoors on the hacking software. I would think- the better it hacks - the more likely it will have a back door...
Hi Eli. I really like your tutorials. I need to start form scratch with your classes. Great stuff my friend. Oh just one thing, your pronunciation of Ubuntu, is actually pronounced, "OOO_BOON_TWO". Sorry about that being South African and all. Keep up the great work. I have learned a lot with your tutorials. Thanks.
Thanks for all the info on hacking, i'm taking a computer security class next year for my junior year in college and this will be great practice over summer =D
Hi Eli, this is off topic a little but are you ever going to have a video on desktop monitor shopping? I always see that one in the background and would like your insight on buying a good screen.
Eli, NAT mode will not allow VMs communicate with each other as you indicated at 21 minute recording. In 'NAT' mode, they can access the internet only. I have tried testing this after watching many videos. It turns out 'NAT Network' mode is the option to allow VMs talk to each other as well as connecting to the internet. Thanks for your hard work. I do like your teaching style though and will be continuing watching them.
if you put your mouse crosshair into the video time line and drag it from the start till the end little fast you will see his hands moving like crazy xD btw nice video
I got three OS running at the same time. Two webservers and a Ubuntu desktop. I do experience some slowdown in Ubuntu every once in a while, but it's not bad. If it is just you using them for testing, you may get away with a slower processor.
Could you list an order of what videos to watch to prepare myself for this class?? I am currently taking on a project and want to be prepared at all angles, if possible. I would greatly appreciate a list of your videos to watch as I usually just watch one after the other of different things. Thanks a bunch
Kind of an old video, but any suggestions on VMware. Currently running Fusion on my mac. Familiar with virtual box but would prefer to stick to one virtualization software on the system. Also picked up an HP Proliant G6 for the house for a few bucks and have been finding way to many options for virtualization. Ubuntu Server offering Mass, ESXi, or other bare metal installs. Currently running Ubuntu headless with Workstation and doing everything remotely on my mac. Looking to optimize things for a home test lab. Any suggestions would be much Appreciated.
Eli, your RUclips classes are wonderful. I'm trying to run a Windows 7 Virtual Box VM on a desktop running Ubuntu 18.04. I have my virtual machine, or, rather, the disk file, on a separate hard drive. I'm running into problems of the sort that I don't know what the various virtual box files are and what they do. That causes problems with how to recover from errors. I don't know how to edit which file. And I need to understand, contrast and compare the various methods of backup my virtual installation and know how to recover it. Can you recommend a good book or RUclips series or something? Thanks
Question about the NAT/Bridged and Internal network configs: If I set up a series of victim machines on an internal config, can I access them from my 'real world' Kali machine? Or would this mean I have to create another similar VM inside the internal network in order to attack them? Thanks in advance.
Hi Eli, buying BestBuy, do you leave the Windows as your main OS? I am looking at BestBuy, but want to customize a bit and everything they sell seems to be preconfigured. ASUS has many versions of the M51AC, but not the variation I am looking for.
I want to build a virtual lab with the windows server 2008 R2 installed and 1 virtual pc but i only have a dual core 2.6Ghz processor and 4g of RAM. What OS should I install to my virtual PC to run even I don't have a powerful unit. Thanx
Eli, would you be willing to give me a direction to where to find good info regarding traces left on the hard drive, especially regarding VM related activies? I've heard that there's always some traces left behind on hard drives unless it is physically destroyed. I know it's kinda computer sciency and probably out of my league but i'm still curious...
Hi eli Great work. Now we know how to setup environment for Penetration test we would be happy to know about "Back track OS" as it it is which contains tools for hacking and and "WIRE SHARK" packet sniffer will be very useful Just my opinion Just admirer of you from India Keep Roking ELI we LOVE you
Thank you for the informative video, you are a great resource. Im questioning the need for the amount of ram and number of instances. In a lab enviroment are you talking about running 4 or 5 os at the same time allocating the ram to the vm os and host pc. If so, is that just for convenience ? Just learning to setup a vm and would be doing one at a time until I learn a little more about it .
Because BackTrack is based on Ubuntu, I'd definitely recommend getting familiar with Ubuntu or a variant such as KUbuntu. That's cited off of BackTrack's website. I can also recommend Kali. Take your pick! :)
Plz help any 1 and reply me - i cannot install kali lunix in virtual botx cuz i have 64bit and cannot intall 64 bit guest so i watched videos they told to restart pc and press f12 and enable virtulisation but i dont have that option in my boot or in my laptop so help how can i do trhat??
in my lab I have an Internal network with Windows XP, Windows server and kali linux 2.0. But my kali computer can't reach the server or the XP guest. but both of them can reach to kali. Any ideas why?
EXCELLENT videos! - EXCELLENT teaching style! You have convinced me away from a physical lab. Question, can I hang a switch on my cable modem, then have 1 wire to my main network 192* router - and the other wire to 10* router to this lab pc? That would lessen the risk of being on the same network. Two physically separate wires and completely different addresses.
very very very informative u should do online classes i would pay... can u use virtual machine to devided a computer into multipule pcs for example a server divided into multipule monitors and keyboards just like in school computer labs is a great example love ur stuff dont u dare stop updateing vidz!!!! :)
one more unflattering comment: I hope you do read these because otherwise no point of us taking time to make these honest comments ... your suggested hardware is already not available at bestbuy so why not update description and suggest more current options or make periodically a video specifically giving more current recs for various hardware suggestions you make in various videos and insert links in descriptions ... please reduce the video sizes to 30 mins and do some kind of "audience testing" to improve before uploading ... for example you can privately send some of us a video before you upload so that unnecessary fluff is removed and vague ramblings is replaced by specific and clear advice ... for hardware recs: giving rationale behind recs gives more options and your advice has longer shelf life because using rationale one can figure out what to buy
Best introduction into VirtualBox and its configuration! Not only to prepare penetration testing. Please try to skip repeating yourself over and over again.
Great stuff. Good way to keep people safe and discourage them from doing anything stupid. At least for a good long while. Plenty to learn in this environment. But it's starting to dawn on me that there are going to be some obvious limitations on the types of attacks we can test virtually. That's where people will be tempted to go off the reservation. These are great classes Eli I appreciate it. I've been away from computing for longer than I'd like to admit and I'm really enjoying catching up.
I have done my own computer lab at home.
I tried going virtual but with the machines I have I'd be wasting more time than it should, so I bought me some old machines (3 servers and one PC besides my laptop) and now I am happy with my lab.
I have to say, hard metal is still king for me. Wouldn't go about it any other way. But virtual is decent if you need a BASIC setup, not an efficient one.
That being said, I watched this video for the networking. Thank you for this video.
if your familiar with virtual machines and have a firm understanding of network and security fundamentals the meat and potatoes of ethical hacking starts at 19:00 GREAT video Eli keep up the good work! I put you up there with Professor Messer
Great I am going to set up a lab just like this .. I even know I need a 16gb ram . I have got a security job and need to train myself FAST so this is a major help . Thank you
Just recently started watching your videos/tutorials. Love it!! Good knowledge. I am CompTIA A+ certified and am learning a lot from you that I didn't in class(of course I only scraped the top with this industry standard). Thank you for the videos. Good job and keep up the good work!!!
I like your teaching style just the way it is, despite one or two commenting on the visual portion. I myself am a visual learner so I applaud you for including such methods in this video.
After hours and hours of other classes provided from Eli I have no probs to understand all that stuff! Thx Eli :-)!
One of the best computers guys ever over youtube Eli, thanks for recording this and sharing it with everybody here on the network
Uncanny just what i was searching for thanx Eli. Some people learn easier by pictures rather than books and lots of reading.Top Vids.
Hey guys, Eli is one of the best teachers
"it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2." ... ... ...
Thank you! I started on quickbasic and fortan back in 1976, when I was in high school. This is marvelous work. Cheers and many thanks for the primer to open my thought processes. Cheers - C458
thanks man we are just setting up a uk qualification in this subject and this will help our students establish some of the testing environments required.
you are just too good in explaining things....I really love the way you explain things...I appreciate...thanks a ton
He makes the class interesting and fun all at the same time...
Eli always begins with the theory and discuss the topic then goes to practice
55:14 lol. Thanks for the elaborate review. Watched it all from start to finish.
thanks eli, words can't express how much you have helped me and I love your honesty lol
Awesome instructional video, thanks Eli!! You are now my main go-to instructor on any computer related issues!!
Actually came here to see what you had to say about whether or not a VirtualBox OS can end up fuckin up my own computer. Thanks for the info on how to make sure it can't, you really helped me out!
Very useful information - now I know how much juice I need, what to do in what order, etc. This will be way cheaper than setting up a physical network to practice on in the basement!
7:20 - AMD's new Ryzen 7 processors are very cheap and have 8 cores, 16 threads so should do really well for hosting a lot of virtual machines.
Dude, you can really talk man!! But E.F. Hunton and you have something in common... Thanks for all the videos... Glad there's is people like you, who can break things down to the basics.
I like so much your talking and presentation with rich, fruitful content, state of the art - no doubt !
Eli the Computer Guy I am grateful for your time!
Eli - Thanks man. Just... Thank you. You're awesome for doing this for us. I'm really starting to enjoy "hacking" as a hobby (tinkering with networking). It's so much fun! THANK YOU BROTHA!
Great vid Eli. You helped me get into this industry...keep it up and don't mind the haters!
TCP/IP is part off a protocol stack there is lots off info on this on the net, The Internet protocol suite is the set of communications protocols used for the Internet and similar networks, and generally the most popular protocol stack for wide area networks. It is commonly known as TCP/IP, because of its most important protocols: Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and Internet Protocol (IP), which were the first networking protocols defined in this standard. It is occasionally known as the DoD
This is a very good introduction to making a virtual hacking lab. Double plus good.
Love this guy, best teacher I've never met!
Eli I hope you make some money on these videos you been making because the information is priceless
I love how this was in my recommendations today!
Great series. I am running backtrack 4 with security onion, metasploit, and a few windows boxes. I love this stuff.
Love how you cover in so much detail!
Hmm, I don't think Eli can do 'short and snappy', redhotsun51 - he's got way too much energy! Absolutely great presentation, Eli. When I'm teaching, I always approach it from the point of the lowest common denominator; someone will always pick up info they didn't have before and that's what I took away from this! Thanks much.
Nice, I've waiting for some walk-through tutorial like this one for a long time.... Thanks Eli!
I think it's time to leave the orange shirts behind... Even I have to admit that between the beard and the orange shirt I do look a bit like I'm on work release from Gitmo...
Thank you Eli. Thank you for all these classes.
On my main computer with 8G memory I use vmWare Workstation for virtualization and mostly Linux instances for testing things. I give them either 768M or 1G ram and less than 10G disk space. If I use a text-only Linux, no more than 512M memory. You can also use snapshots to create an instance in time that you can go back to if you want to test something that might break.
watched from the start to the end, Great video Eli! thanks again!
The dislikers are obviously all newbies and lamers
27:13 "virtual lamb" I laughed. I'm tired and my brain is full so I got the giggles.
You, sir, are very fun to watch. Thanks for posting such great videos!
Thank You Eli! I have learned so much from your video and I greatly appreciate it.
Uber Newb here mate. Ultimately I would like to get into using BackTrack. From the readings I have done it seems I am not ready for such an advanced system. What OS is the best for a entry level user to learn and experiment with?
Also you mentioned that you have "beginner" videos but i didnt come across them. Forums have helped, but there is alot of more advanced jargon being used that I don't understand. Any advice would be appreciated.
Many Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us newbies
I agree VB fits nearly all my needs however the USB pass-through with the alfa NHA is faulty. There is an open support Ticket #9511. It is 20 months old and no action. For all my wireless stuff I use Kali on a separate laptop.
Depends. You have 30 days to activate any installation of Windows 7. Assuming your task can be completed within that time frame you will be doing so legally.
Around 32:40 you started talking about a clone incase you screw up. I'm confused why you wouldn't just use snapshots to revert back and forth to. It saves space and is an easier process then having several clones sitting around
Thanks Eli. Great tutorial. Very educational.
I had an internship where I worked from home and learned independently. You offer a nice networking 101, that suffices to cover most important topics. Where do you find the good networking concept schools are?
Well done Eli, good point about the possibility of backdoors on the hacking software. I would think- the better it hacks - the more likely it will have a back door...
Great class!!!! Learned alot from you and you didn't make sound boring. Gonna go watch your other vids. Thx
what did you learn please?
I looking forward to learning more from your videos to help me get further in the IT field
must be the first vid you watched of his, because 5 more later youwill know no more than when you started
Hi Eli. I really like your tutorials. I need to start form scratch with your classes. Great stuff my friend. Oh just one thing, your pronunciation of Ubuntu, is actually pronounced, "OOO_BOON_TWO". Sorry about that being South African and all. Keep up the great work. I have learned a lot with your tutorials. Thanks.
Nice Vid. Didn't really come for the hacking, came for the virtbox infos :P helped me a lot with my virt lab. Thx a lot m8!
Thank you Eli for such cools and easy to understand video. Kudos :)
Thanks for the brief explanation of it... im definatley looking farther into this
Thanks for all the info on hacking, i'm taking a computer security class next year for my junior year in college and this will be great practice over summer =D
Your explanation of the several connection modes (NAT, bridge and internal), with pictures and everything was great. Spot on! Many thanks! :)
Good job on explaining the virtual box and the instances especially boot from ISO"s. Thanks
I found this very educational and easy to understand.
Thanks so much this vid has been very helpful getting me started w some Vulnhub boxes
Could someone make a playlist for this class so we can all watch all the lessons in order?
Super wonderful so few want to take the time to contribute these days.
Hi Eli, this is off topic a little but are you ever going to have a video on desktop monitor shopping? I always see that one in the background and would like your insight on buying a good screen.
Eli, NAT mode will not allow VMs communicate with each other as you indicated at 21 minute recording. In 'NAT' mode, they can access the internet only. I have tried testing this after watching many videos. It turns out 'NAT Network' mode is the option to allow VMs talk to each other as well as connecting to the internet. Thanks for your hard work. I do like your teaching style though and will be continuing watching them.
if you put your mouse crosshair into the video time line and drag it from the start till the end little fast you will see his hands moving like crazy xD btw nice video
+Giorgos Apollon Haha, and of course I tried it. Got a good chuckle.
I got three OS running at the same time. Two webservers and a Ubuntu desktop. I do experience some slowdown in Ubuntu every once in a while, but it's not bad. If it is just you using them for testing, you may get away with a slower processor.
Thank you for this video very informative , Please keep up the good work . I Don't know how write fancy words but u r sir Awesome .
Could you list an order of what videos to watch to prepare myself for this class?? I am currently taking on a project and want to be prepared at all angles, if possible. I would greatly appreciate a list of your videos to watch as I usually just watch one after the other of different things. Thanks a bunch
Really appreciate the video. Thanks Eli.
Very, very, very informative! Thanks for this video.
Thanks Eli. Could you do a video malware analysis?
Kind of an old video, but any suggestions on VMware. Currently running Fusion on my mac. Familiar with virtual box but would prefer to stick to one virtualization software on the system. Also picked up an HP Proliant G6 for the house for a few bucks and have been finding way to many options for virtualization. Ubuntu Server offering Mass, ESXi, or other bare metal installs. Currently running Ubuntu headless with Workstation and doing everything remotely on my mac. Looking to optimize things for a home test lab. Any suggestions would be much Appreciated.
Eli, the computer guy, i love the way you teach and please do too much talking because from the way you talk, i learn many things.
Thank you so much for posting all these tutorial videos.
Eli, your RUclips classes are wonderful. I'm trying to run a Windows 7 Virtual Box VM on a desktop running Ubuntu 18.04. I have my virtual machine, or, rather, the disk file, on a separate hard drive. I'm running into problems of the sort that I don't know what the various virtual box files are and what they do. That causes problems with how to recover from errors. I don't know how to edit which file. And I need to understand, contrast and compare the various methods of backup my virtual installation and know how to recover it. Can you recommend a good book or RUclips series or something? Thanks
Good stuff here,I'll be back here, nice bytes of info.
did you learn anything about the title of the video??
Question about the NAT/Bridged and Internal network configs:
If I set up a series of victim machines on an internal config, can I access them from my 'real world' Kali machine?
Or would this mean I have to create another similar VM inside the internal network in order to attack them?
Thanks in advance.
Hi Eli, buying BestBuy, do you leave the Windows as your main OS? I am looking at BestBuy, but want to customize a bit and everything they sell seems to be preconfigured. ASUS has many versions of the M51AC, but not the variation I am looking for.
I want to build a virtual lab with the windows server 2008 R2 installed and 1 virtual pc but i only have a dual core 2.6Ghz processor and 4g of RAM. What OS should I install to my virtual PC to run even I don't have a powerful unit. Thanx
Eli, would you be willing to give me a direction to where to find good info regarding traces left on the hard drive, especially regarding VM related activies? I've heard that there's always some traces left behind on hard drives unless it is physically destroyed. I know it's kinda computer sciency and probably out of my league but i'm still curious...
I thought at 45:29 that the video was restarting as all the information was repeating.
Hi eli Great work.
Now we know how to setup environment for Penetration test
we would be happy to know about "Back track OS" as it it is which contains
tools for hacking
and and "WIRE SHARK" packet sniffer will be very useful Just my opinion
Just admirer of you from India
Keep Roking ELI we LOVE you
Thank you for the informative video, you are a great resource. Im questioning the need for the amount of ram and number of instances. In a lab enviroment are you talking about running 4 or 5 os at the same time allocating the ram to the vm os and host pc. If so, is that just for convenience ? Just learning to setup a vm and would be doing one at a time until I learn a little more about it .
Turn off a computer...?
Why couldn't I LIKE this video more than once ??? RUclips put 100 likes to this tutorial on behalf of me !!
Nice Eli, looking for the class on the use of psfsense within virtualbox.
Because BackTrack is based on Ubuntu, I'd definitely recommend getting familiar with Ubuntu or a variant such as KUbuntu. That's cited off of BackTrack's website.
I can also recommend Kali. Take your pick! :)
Plz help any 1 and reply me - i cannot install kali lunix in virtual botx cuz i have 64bit and cannot intall 64 bit guest so i watched videos they told to restart pc and press f12 and enable virtulisation but i dont have that option in my boot or in my laptop so help how can i do trhat??
in my lab I have an Internal network with Windows XP, Windows server and kali linux 2.0. But my kali computer can't reach the server or the XP guest. but both of them can reach to kali. Any ideas why?
EXCELLENT videos! - EXCELLENT teaching style! You have convinced me away from a physical lab. Question, can I hang a switch on my cable modem, then have 1 wire to my main network 192* router - and the other wire to 10* router to this lab pc? That would lessen the risk of being on the same network. Two physically separate wires and completely different addresses.
Please help. I use windows 10 > VitualBox (Latest version) and I get this error "the target file system contains files from a past installation"
try KVM and you don't have to worry about RAM as when usiing hyper V or virtual box.
I heard you say CAT5 and was like... wait... when was this made? 2013! I'm being recommended this now, ha!
very very very informative u should do online classes i would pay... can u use virtual machine to devided a computer into multipule pcs for example a server divided into multipule monitors and keyboards just like in school computer labs is a great example love ur stuff dont u dare stop updateing vidz!!!! :)
Thanks for the wonderful videos!
Can you do a video that explains how to set up a DNS server?
one more unflattering comment: I hope you do read these because otherwise no point of us taking time to make these honest comments ... your suggested hardware is already not available at bestbuy so why not update description and suggest more current options or make periodically a video specifically giving more current recs for various hardware suggestions you make in various videos and insert links in descriptions ... please reduce the video sizes to 30 mins and do some kind of "audience testing" to improve before uploading ... for example you can privately send some of us a video before you upload so that unnecessary fluff is removed and vague ramblings is replaced by specific and clear advice ... for hardware recs: giving rationale behind recs gives more options and your advice has longer shelf life because using rationale one can figure out what to buy
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i enjoy listening to him attempt to say attached, bridged, each & changed. durrrrrrrrrrrp