Next the installer will ask you about the partitions of the disk. Set the appropriate domain name if you want to configure it, in our case we will leave it as blank Set the hostname of the guest as ‘Kali’, you can choose any name Set the keyboard configuration based upon your choice
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Select the Graphical install option as we need to install GUI based interface Go to Storage tab and select Controller: IDE, select Empty, at the right most corner select the tiny CD icon from where you can browse the ISO file that you have downloaded on your PC. Setting location and size of virtual hard disk. Finally, it only remains to assign the size of the virtual hard disk. Select what you want according to the system. Next, we choose the storage mode between dynamically allocated and fixed size. Go to System tab and select Processor, here you can choose number of processors depends upon how many processors you want to give your virtual machine. Choose which type of hard disk wants to install. Now select the VM Kali and go to settings for more configuration Step3: Select an image file and install Kali Linux After allocating memory select the tab “Create” If you select less than 20GB then it will show some errors while installing. “Dynamically allocated”Īllocate memory to your machine as required, minimum requirement is 20GB. The best practice is to select as default i.e. It will ask the storage on the physical hard drive, select this option based upon your requirement. Next it will ask hard drive file type so leave it default as we want to make a VDI file We are going to create a Virtual Hard drive so choose second option that says “Create a virtual hard disk now” The recommended memory is at least 1GB but you can select it based upon your system’s resources Select the amount of memory of your choice. Select type as Linux, version Debian (64-bit) as you will not be able to find Kali Linux in option and then type any name of your choice in the Name bar Select the image of your choice based on your requirements.Īfter downloading an image file open up VirtualBox You can find it on the official download page: Installation Steps: Step 1: Download Kali Linux ISO image file Virtualization feature should enable on the processor.At least 30GB to 40GB of free disk space.Step 2: Create a guest OS on VirtualBox.Step 1: Download Kali Linux ISO image file.