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Mastering Linux Security and Hardening
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Mastering Linux Security and Hardening

by Donald A. Tevault
January 2018
Intermediate to advanced
376 pages
8h 45m
English
Packt Publishing
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Installing a virtual machine in VirtualBox

For those of you who've never used VirtualBox, here's a quick how-to to get you going:

  1. Download and install VirtualBox and the VirtualBox Extension Pack. You can get them from: https://www.virtualbox.org/.

  2. Download the installation .iso files for Ubuntu Server and CentOS 7. You can get them from: https://www.ubuntu.com/ and https://www.centos.org/.

 

  1. Start VirtualBox and click the New icon at the top of the screen. Fill out the information where requested. Increase the virtual drive size to 20 GB, but leave everything else as the default settings:
  1. Start the new virtual machine. Click on the ...
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