Instructor: In this video,
we will go through our lab designing,
the lab that we need to practice all the videos and lectures
throughout this course.
So we have two options to design our lab.
Option one is that you have a computer,
a desktop or a laptop at home.
That computer could either
be running Windows operating system
or Mac operating system.
Then what do you do?
You install a virtualization software on it.
So this way, you don't have to lose
the main host operating system
that is right now running on your computer.
The virtualization software
allows you to run a multiple operating system
on top of your main operating system.
So the virtualization software,
there are many of them.
The main two ones are VMware Player
and Oracle VirtualBox.
These are the two free virtualization software
that you could use to set up your lab.
Once you have any one of those two downloaded, installed,
then we'll go ahead and create our virtual machine on it.
That virtual machine will allow us to create and install
our Linux operating system on top of that.
So that's our simple first option.
The second option that you could use
is the same way that you have a desktop or laptop at home
running Windows or Mac.
And then instead of installing a virtualization software
on your computer,
you could actually create an account
on one of the cloud services that are out there.
The cloud services could be either AWS or Google Cloud
or any of the cloud services that give you a free account
or free access to create virtual machines
with the resources that you need.
So once you have that,
then we should follow the same way.
We'll create a virtual machine on cloud services,
and then we will install the Linux operating system
over that virtual machine.
So these are the two options you have.
You could pick either one for this course,
and any of the one will work.
But for if you wanted to follow exactly step by step
that I'm going through,
that I'm going to pick option one.
But I have provided instructions
for every steps that I have listed here.