Can this Wireless Lab Setup work?

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Hello all and Merry Christmas to those who are celebrating!!

I got this book for Christmas that I am REALLY excited about:

Backtrack 5 Wireless Penetration Testing Beginner's Guide: Master Bleeding ... - Vivek Ramachandran - Google Books

I started reading it tonight and it says in order to set up the wireless lab you would need:

  • Two laptops with internal Wi-Fi cards
  • One Alfa wireless adapter
  • One access point
  • An Internet connection

It also briefly mentions that you can use Virtual Box, but doesn't give any details. I currently have two VMs set up in my VMware Player: Backtrack and Windows XP. Is it possible to set up a wireless lab this way and still be able to carry out the exercises in this book (for any who may be familiar with it)? Would I need to go out and get an Alfa wireless adapter as well for things like packet injections.

If the book wasn't a giveaway, I'm very new to this :p and I'm hoping to build a foundation to work on. I'd really love to learn about wireless security and get some insights into Penetration Testing but I just don't have the room to set up a real wireless lab so I'd love to find a way to achieve this through virtual machines. Any help would REALLY be appreciated!

Thank you so much!
 
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