A solo VM lab

I plan to build a IT lab contains serval VMs which I need to learn all in one PC box.

The technical stack to build this lab:

• Hype-V - the Hypervisor for this lab.
• Packer - the VM template builder, build VM template (Vagrant vbox) from ISO file.
• Vagrant - the VM provision controller, make VM run from the vbox.

Network architecture in this lab

Reason to build the gateway VM

• Communitcate between host and VMs (seems the VMs cannot direct communicate to the host by default switch).
• With DHCP services, I am no need to config VM IP address individually.
• Set this gateway as a transparent proxy server, which means all machines are able to connect the TRUE internet through the gateway.

I will get start from the gateway VM.

to be continue