Using SSH makes it easier and more effective to manage your virtual machines. After you set it up, you can open a terminal on your host computer, like PowerShell on Windows or Terminal on macOS/Linux, ...

Oracle Solaris is a Unix-based operating system known for its scalability, security, and advanced features like ZFS and DTrace. If you are looking to use Solaris, you don’t have to create a separate ...

This project demonstrates my practical ability to set up and configure a Linux operating system—Ubuntu—within a virtualized environment. The task involved downloading the appropriate ISO, setting up a ...

Run Oracle VM VirtualBox. Click on New → Enter a name → Choose a project folder (preferably on a disk with sufficient space) → Specify the virtual optical disk as the image file you just downloaded.

In this series, I show how to construct and configure a home lab in Oracle VirtualBox that contains two Linux virtual machines (VMs), a virtual pfSense router/firewall, and a Wazuh OVA appliance. In ...

In this multipart series I walk through setting up a Security Information Event Management (SIEM) home lab in Oracle VirtualBox, step by step. If this is your first time viewing an article in this ...

When most people think of hacking, they think of Linux. I used to turn my nose up at even the idea of hacking from a Mac because it didn’t make sense. Nowadays, it’s all I’ve been using for my OSINT ...

The E_FAIL (0x80004005) error on the Oracle VM VirtualBox prevents you from starting a Virtual Machine session. There are several types of these errors, and you’ll ...

Run macOS on Windows using a virtual machine like VirtualBox or VMware. Enable virtualization, disable Hyper-V, allocate sufficient RAM and storage, load a macOS ISO, and follow setup steps to install ...

If your data center relies on VirtualBox and your virtual machines rely on USB, you’ve probably noticed that USB doesn’t work unless you enable it. Here’s how to do that. If there’s one thing that ...

Fahad holds a Bachelors in Computer Science and his passion for all things Windows is reflected in his writing. Having worked in the tech space for over four years, he deftly blends his technical ...