1)You need to download 2 files.
On this page click download for 20.04.1 LTS (long term support)
https://ubuntu.com/download/desktop
Then go to this page and download “workstation player for windows”
https://www.vmware.com/products/workstation-player/workstation-player-evaluation.html
2)Install VMware, leave all options default but add in the keyboard option
3) Once you install VM ware, just to make your life easier create a
new folder called “virtual machines”
Once this is done, create a new folder on your harddrive called ISO’s
and move that file from downloads to ISO’s.
4) Open VM ware, and choose “create a new virtual machine”
In the next screen click the middle option “installer disk image” and
select the iso you downloaded from Ubuntu earlier. then click next.
This screen should say linux, and version 5.x or something similar.
then click next.
give your virtual machine a name like sandbox or playground and select
the location as the ‘virtual machines” folder you made earlier.
Then just keep hitting next, and if it asks you for user information put it in.
That should be it.
This seems more complicated than it actually is. I like VMware over
the Oracle VBox solution as it automates a lot of options. In the
future, you will find yourself making lots of virtual machines to
practice skills you will learn in class.
It will be a similar process to install other Linux builds.
You can download kali for VM’s and choose the one for vmware, and instead of create new VM you choose open VM, and keep all the defaults. I recommend placing it into a folder called kali in your VM folder.
Download the version of Kali for your preferred VM software, then choose open.
https://www.offensive-security.com/kali-linux-vm-vmware-virtualbox-image-download/
You can Download Metasploitable 2 a very open VM that you can practice attacking herer:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/metasploitable/files/latest/download
Or a OWASP BWA VM you can test attacking as well
https://sourceforge.net/projects/owaspbwa/
-Phil