In this video, we're going to go over what you're going to need for this course.
So it's going to be pretty simple.
You're going to need admin rights to your machine.
You're going to be able you're going to need to be able to enable virtualization in your Bios.
A lot of times this is off, and you're going to want to check with your hardware vendor to see how
to get in the Bios and how to set that you're going to need internet access.
And if you're watching this course, chances are you already have a good internet connection, or at
least an internet connection itself.
We're going to need 40 gigs or more of hard drive space free.
And also you're going to want to have eight gigs or memory or more.
For Mac users that are using an M1 or M2 processor, you're going to need a VirtualBox alternative.
VirtualBox doesn't run really well with, um, the new M chips at the time of this recording.
So an alternative is if you go to Mac dot, get UTM dot app.
Uh, a lot of students in my previous courses at that took it that have M1, M2 processors had a lot
of good success with that, and it is a free program.
So other than that to be, if you're wondering about Osint and do you really need to set up a virtual
machine and whatnot?
No, technically you run Osint on a phone, tablet, a telephone, a tablet, a regular computer, pretty
much anything with a browser or internet connection or other publicly available sources.
However, we're running a VM because it is best practices to run a virtual machine, and we'll go over
more about why we want to do that.
So again, you want to make sure that you have at least 40 gigs of hard drive space or three or more.
Um, so anywhere between 50 to 60 gigs is going to be, uh, plenty of space, a at least eight gigs
of memory.
And again, for those Mac users with the M1 and M2 processor, you're going to want to find a alternative
for VirtualBox like Mac Dot Getmap.
So thank you for watching.
I'll see you in the next video.