Make sure to look into these tips if you run into issues while setting up your own lab environment:

Only 32bit VMs are listed in Virtual Box

While creating VMs in Virtual box if only 32 bit vms are listed, kindly check on the following:

1. Check if Virtualization is enabled on your system. For this you must access the BIOS of your laptop and enable Virtualization if its not already enabled.

2. Check if Hyper-V is enabled on your system. If it is, ensure that it is disabled as two virtualization technologies cannot co-exist.

Issues installing Ansible and its dependencies

Once the Debian VM is up and running make the following changes to the /etc/apt/sources.list file to get the Ansible installation working right.

1. Comment the line starting deb cdrom

2. Uncomment bottom two lines starting deb and deb-src

3. Add the below two lines:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ansible/ansible/ubuntu trusty main
deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian sid main

Final file:

#
# deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 8.9.0 _Jessie_ - Official amd64 DVD Binary-1 20170723-11:49]/ jessie contrib main
#deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 8.9.0 _Jessie_ - Official amd64 DVD Binary-1 20170723-11:49]/ jessie contrib main
#deb http://deb/debian.org/debian jessie main
#deb-src http://deb.debian.org/debian stretch main
deb http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main contrib
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates main contrib
# jessie-updates, previously known as 'volatile'
# A network mirror was not selected during install.  The following entries
# are provided as examples, but you should amend them as appropriate
# for your mirror of choice.
#
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ jessie-updates main contrib
deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ jessie-updates main contrib
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ansible/ansible/ubuntu trusty main
deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian sid main

Once file is updated, run apt-get update and then run apt-get install ansible

Enabling SSH on the VM

If you need SSH enabled on the system, follow the below steps:

1. Ensure the /etc/apt/sources.list file has been updated as per above

2. Run the command: apt-get update 

3. Run the command: apt-get install openssh-server

4. Run the command: service sshd start