Select your language and click on Continue. Next few prompts would select language preferences, keyboard layout and your location as shown below: In the Boot Menu select the Graphical Install option for a simple and hassle free installation experience and hit Enter. Then click on Start to boot the installation media. Using the file explorer window that pops up, locate the Kali ISO file that you downloaded earlier. VirtualBox will prompt us to select a bootable media to boot the VM with. Since the Virtual Hard Disk doesn’t have an OS installed on it, it is not bootable yet. Open up VirtualBox manager and double click on KaliVM to boot it up. That is all there is to VM setup, let’s install Kali OS on top of this VM. Also, if you plan on using the VM to deal with the traffic flowing through the LAN to which your host is connected, you can go to Network tab and select Bridge Networking so that your VM shows up on your local DHCP server as a physical device like any other desktop, phone or tablet. Increase the number of processors to a reasonable amount so the VM performs better. Go to Systems tab on the Settings menu and there select the Processor tab. Just right click on the VM and select Settings. Click “Create” one last time and the VM is created.īefore starting the installation, you may also want to tweak the VM’s settings. By doing this, your VM will not take up the entire allocated size at once but would rather grow gradually as and when it needs more space. Keep the hard disk file type as VDI and set the it to be dynamically allocated. Select a size that works for you, when creating your Virtual Disk. Kali recommends a minimum disk size of 20GB, and for practical purposes you would want something larger than 40GB in size. Lastly, for storage select the “Create a virtual hard disk now” option as shown below and click “Create”. Anything above 2GB would result in a decent performance. Also allocate a sizeable amount of RAM to this VM. Select the Type as “Linux” and Version as “Debian (64-bit)”. In the “Create Virtual Machine” window, give your VM a reasonable name.

Click on the “New” button from the top left corner. Once the iso is downloaded, we are ready to install it inside a VM. The file is nearly 3 GB in size and it might take a while to download.

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