Setting up Metasploit on a virtual machine with SSH connectivity
In the previous recipe, we focused on setting up a penetration testing lab on a single machine with the help of virtualization. But there can be serious memory usage concerns while using multiple virtual machines. So, here we will discuss a conservation technique which can be really handy in bad times.
Getting ready
All we need is an SSH client. We will use PuTTY as it is the most popular and free SSH client available for Windows. We will set up an SSH connectivity with the Backtrack machine as it has more memory consumption than the Windows XP machine.
How to do it...
- We will start by booting our BackTrack virtual machine. On reaching the login prompt, enter the credentials to start ...
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