VMware Workstation

Setup can be frustrating if you're not already familiar with that environment.

Because you're gonna have to, it involves getting VirtualBox or VMware Fusion or VMware Workstation set up.

So you may not want to go that way right away.

And even if you are familiar with GNS3, packet tracer just is really easy.

Uh, this is my hypervisor that I'm using.

Now, you could-- If you're in Windows, you may be running, uh, a VMware Workstation hypervisor.

Maybe you're running a VirtualBox.

You're r- able to do virtual systems.

And the methodology is very strict about setting up a sandbox.

It requires utilizing a virtualization suite like VMware Workstation or Oracle VirtualBox to create a nested isolated network on a single machine.

Crucial step.

Yeah.