What you need for this book

The most important things you need are the will to learn and the drive to improve your capabilities. Supporting these, you will need a system that can support multiple Virtual Machines (VMs) that run within an industry-standard hypervisor, such as VMware Workstation (a recent version) or Virtual Box. The preferred solution is VMware Workstation running on a recent version of Windows, such as Windows 7. An Internet connection will be required to allow you to download the supporting libraries and software packages, as necessary. Each of the detailed software packages and libraries will be listed at the beginning of each chapter.