Question

Complete the following four installations:  Virtual Box: o Install Virtual Box. o Capture a screen shot .  Windows OS Workstation: o Create one Windows OS workstation:  You can use windows 7, 8 or 10 (If you have a DVD with OS use the DVD). o Capture a screen shot. Windows Server Image: o Create one Windows Server (2008, 2012 or 2016) images in the workstation you created.  Choose any operating system you want. post screen shot Packet Tracer: o Install Packet Tracer on your host machine. post screen shot

Answer 1

ANSWER :

Virtual Box:

Install Virtual Box. Capture a screen shot

i. Go to the website "https://www.virtualbox.org/"

ii. Download the software called "VirtualBox6.1", in bright blue color

iii. After downloading run the above software by double-clicking it.
iv. Capture the screen shot by using 'print screen' key on the keyboard, then open MS paint, then use 'paste' from the Menu and then save th file to capture the screenshot in the file

Windows OS Workstation:

Create one Windows OS workstation - Windows 7, 8 or 10 (Can also use DVD )

1. Start Virtual Box Software you just installed

2. From the Virtual Box Program menu at the top choose machine and then choose new to create a new virtual machine for Windows, you will see a window like below, give an appropriate name to the machine in the Name field, then choose a directory where you want to store this Virtual machine and the click next

3. After clicking the Next button you will see a window like below: Choose an appropriate amount of RAM
you want to dedicate for this machine, I recomment to choose 4 GB, if your computer has 8 GB or more otherwise choose 2 GB. And then click Next.

4. Go to the next step and choose either one of the options (it is safe to use any of the following two options but do not choose the third option, I recomment choosing "create a virtual hard disk" ): This step will create a virtual hard disk for you and then you need to mention the size of the disk you want to create in next window, choose 20 GB or 50 GB depending on available disk space on your computer: 1. Do not add a virtual hard disk:2. Create a virtual hard disk.

5. Finally click the button create, to create the Windows 10 Virtual machine

Part 3: Windows Server Image: o Create one Windows Server (2008, 2012 or 2016) images in the workstation you created. Choose any operating system you want.

Steps: Here you are being asked to create a windows server image in the virtual machine you just created above, what you need here is to create a virtual disk image for WIndows server (2008, 2012, and 2016 ) from the above virtual machine, here are the steps:

1. Go to the steps mentioned in the part 2 above, follow the steps mentioned there but do the following changes:
a. Install virtual box software from inside the WIndows 10 virtual machine you just installed   
b. In step 2, instead of creating a windows 10 workstation choose " Windows 2012(64-bit) "
c. Do step 3 from Part 2 as mentioned
d. Perform step 4 from Part 2 as mentioned but ensure that you are creating a virtual disk for " Windows 2012 " and not for any other OS. Note the location where the virtual disk is being created
e. Stop here, Dont proceed to create the virtual machine, but stop at the step d above, and this is the Image you need. Check the image from the location where it is created.

Part 4: Packet Tracer: o Install Packet Tracer on your host machine

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