Metasploit Penetration Testing Cookbook

Setting up the penetration testing lab on a single machine

You can always have a penetration testing lab set up by using multiple machines and it is considered the ideal setup as well. But what if you have an emergency and you immediately need to set up a testing scenario and you only have a single machine? Well using a virtual machine is the obvious answer. You can work simultaneously on more than one operating system and perform the task of penetration testing. So let us have a quick look at how we can set up a penetration testing lab on a single system with the help of a virtual machine.

Getting ready

We will be using a virtual box to set up two virtual machines with BackTrack 5 and Windows XP SP2 operating systems. Our host system is a Windows ...