Install & configure VirtualBox & Access Linux VMs using putty

Step 1 – Download and Install VirtualBox

• https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

Step 2 – Download Centos 7 VM ISO file or Ubuntu 20.X VM ISO file

• https://www.centos.org/download/
• https://ubuntu.com/download/desktop
• https://ubuntu.com/download/server

Step 3 – Create and Configure VMs

• Centos 7 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-VZwc-0Y1M
• Ubuntu 20 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5MhydijWmc

Step 4 – Enable VMs networking setting to Bridge Adapter

Step 5 – Enable Networking using command line and Get a IP address of VMs

Step 6 – Download Putty

• https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/latest.html

Step 7 – Login using Putty and Work with Server for Lab Practice

Step 8 – Run Update and Install useful utility

# REDHAT and Centos
$ yum update
$ yum install wget zip unzip

# Ubuntu
$ apt-get update
$ apt-get install wget zip unzip
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