REVEN in Hyper-V

Here are the specific steps to import the pre-installed REVEN's Hyper-V VHDX disk.

Before proceeding to the following steps, please make sure you read the general steps for installing REVEN in a VM first.

Creating and configuring the VM

VM Creation

1. Open up the Hyper-V Manager.

2. Under the "Action" menu, select "New", then "Virtual Machine".

   

3. Specify the name and location you want.

4. Specify "Generation 1" VM.

   

5. Select at least 16384MiB of RAM.

   

6. Select a connection that allows you to connect to this machine from your host, and also allows the VM to access the Internet. Default Switch should work on default setups:

   

7. Next, connect to the REVEN VM disk you previously downloaded:

   

8. At this stage, your VM summary should look like this:

   

9. Click on "Finish".

Further configuration

We cannot boot the VM yet, further configuration is required:

1. Open the VM's settings dialog.

   

2. Change the number of virtual processors to the recommended 8:

   

3. Select the IDE disk that will serve as the data disk on Ide Controller 0. If you are upgrading from a previous VM installation, you can select the previous disk - otherwise you must create a new one:

   1. The disk should be VHDX.
   2. Dynamically expanding is acceptable.

4. At this stage, your VM should look like this:

   

5. Finally, you must activate nested virtualization on this VM:

   1. Open an administrator powershell console.
   2. Enter the command Set-VMProcessor -VMName <VMName> -ExposeVirtualizationExtensions $true (replace <VMName> with your VM's name)

Booting it up

Your REVEN VM is now properly configured, you can go back to the general steps to install REVEN in a VM to boot it up.