If you are on a Windows machine that is fine all the client boxes at competitions are Windows outside of one or two. Tragically your only solution is to use PuTTY. There are very few commands you will need to execute on your local machine anyway. Once connected to a remote box we will be using Unix based commands. Also Windows server management is often done via Remote Desktop so you will be in a familiar environment. The following is a quick tutorial on how to SSH into a remote server with PuTTY. Also you will need to download 7zip to extract the tarball.
Virtual Machines can be used on either VMWare Fusion (Mac) or Workstation (Windows). They can be downloaded for free by logging into your EECS account here. Then clicking on the Downloads link on the left has side. From there you click VMWare which takes you to an online store where you can download the software.
Clone repo to your local machine using
$ git clone https://github.com/KUInfoSecClub/VirtualMachines.gitWe will host a temporary web server so you can download the tarball containing the machine. If you are a Windows user you will need to save the file into the appropriate directory. Unix based systems can just run the command noted below.
To host a temporary web server run the following command from the directory you wish to share.
# Python 2
$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer
# Python 3
$ python3 -m http.server$ tar -zxvf TARBALLNAME.tar.gz