Lab Build: First Virtual Machine Creation

In our last Lab Build post, we covered installing the hypervisor (VirtualBox) that will be used to create virtual machines (VMs) for the lab. In this post, we’ll focus on creating our very first Windows Server virtual machine in the lab, which will serve as our domain controller. What is a domain controller? A domain …

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Lab Build: VirtualBox Installation

For this portion of the lab build, we will be installing Oracle’s VirtualBox. VirtualBox is a free hypervisor that allows us to create virtual machines for the lab without the need for multiple physical computers or servers. NOTE: VirtualBox may not be fully compatible with Apple silicon-based Macs. I have not tested this, but Oracle …

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