Installation on VMware Workstation

In the following steps, we will import the downloaded EVE-NG OVA image into VMware Workstation. OVA-based images contain files that describe the virtual machine in terms of hard disk, CPU, and RAM values. You can later modify these numbers after importing them:

1. Open VMware workstation and from File, choose Open to import the OVA.
2. After completing the import process, right-click on the newly created machine and choose Edit Settings.

1. Increase the number of processors to 4 and the memory allocated to 8 GB (again, you could add more if you have the resources but this setting will be enough for our lab).
2. Make sure the Virtualize Intel VT-x/EPT or AMD-V/RVI checkbox is enabled. This option instructs VMware workstation to pass the virtualization flags to the guest OS (nested virtualization):

Also, it's recommended to expand the hard disk by adding additional space to the existing hard disk in order to have enough space to host multiple images from vendors:

A message will appear after expanding the disk, indicating that the operation was done successfully and you need to follow some procedures in the guest operating system to merge the new space with the old one. Luckily for us, we don't need to do that as EVE-NG will merge any new space found in the hard disk with the old one during system boot: