I am currently running my forensic workstation as a virtual machine within VMware Workstation 12.5. I chose to do this for multiple reasons, some of which include snapshots to roll back the workstation, ability to test different forensic tools, test OSs for the workstation (Windows vs Linux), etc. Not to mention the cost associated with VMWare Workstation compared to having several machines running different OSs as well as the portability of it all
So far this setup has worked well as test bed for the start of my expedition. There have been a few performance hurdles but nothing that a little patience wouldn’t take care of. However today I ran into an issue that, although I was able to overcome is disappointing to say the least. Continue reading →