Accessing the Lab

1. Before Booting the VMs

Hyper-V VMs take up a lot of diskspace. Your lab VM has a temporary storage drive which gets wipped after every reboot. To save space on your C:\ I’ve told Hyper-V to store sate files on this Temporary Storage partition and then placed backups on the C:\ partition. If this doesn’t make any sense don’t worry about it, just follow the image below to copy over the files so your VMs will boot.

  1. Open up the VM Storage Backups folder located on your Desktop
  2. Right+click on the Virtual Machines folder
  3. Select Copy form the menu
  4. Paste the Virtual Machines folder at the root of the Temporary Storage (D:) partition

2. Booting the VMs

Use the Hyper-V Manager to start up the lab virtual machines.

  1. Open the Hyper-V Manager using the shortcut on your Desktop
  2. Highlight all of the VMs, right+click and select Start

Corection! First start Einstein-dc01, wait 20 seconds or so, then start the remaining four VMs.

3. Pentst VM gotcha

It’s entirely possible that this issue was isolated to me and me alone but just to be on the safe side. I noticed that the Ubuntu screensaver was causing my RDP session to freeze which resulted in annoying VM reboots. I recommend disabling it just to be on the safe side.

  • Click on the power icon in the upper-right corner
  • Select Settings
  • Choose Power from the left navigation
  • Under the heading Power Saving Options select Never from the drop down