Preparing the Guest (Physical Machine) — Cuckoo Sandbox v2.0-rc2 Book

# Preparing the Guest (Physical Machine)

At this point you should have configured the Cuckoo host component and you should have designed and defined the number and the names of the physical machines you are going to use for malware execution.

Now it’s time to create such machines and to configure them properly.

- Creation of the Physical Machine
- Requirements
  - Install Python
  - Additional Software
  - Additional Host Requirements
- Network Configuration
  - Windows Settings
  - Networking
- Installing the Agent
- Saving the Guest
  - Fog
  - Setup using VMWare (Bonus!)