We will work in an environment that will make use of virtualization software. It is recommended that we have a physical machine with virtualization enabled and a processor with at least four cores, 4 GB of RAM, and 250 GB of disk space. Pre-install this physical machine with either the Windows or Linux operating system.

We will be using VirtualBox in our setup. The host operating system version of Windows or Linux will depend on the requirements of VirtualBox. See the latest version of VirtualBox at https://www.virtualbox.org/ and look for the recommended requirements.

You may need to download virtual machines from Microsoft in advance, as these may take some time to download. See the developers' page at https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/vms/. Windows 10 can be downloaded from the following link: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10