I had a heck of a time getting a Cuckoo sandbox running, and below I hope to help you get one up and running relatively quickly by detailing out the steps and gotchas I stumbled across along the way. I mention this in the references at the end of this gist, but what you see here is heavily influenced by this article from Nviso
- Setup a Ubuntu 16.04 64-bit desktop VM (download here) in VMWare with the following properties:
- 100GB hard drive
- 2 procs
- 8 gigs of RAM