Kali Linux 2018：Assuring Security by Penetration Testing

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Installing Kali on a virtual machine

You can also install Kali Linux on a virtual machine environment as a guest operating system. The advantages of this type of installation are that you do not need to prepare a separate physical hard disk partition for the Kali Linux image and can use your existing operating system as is.

We will use VirtualBox ( http://www.virtualbox.org) as the virtual machine software. VirtualBox is open source virtualization software that is available for the Windows, Linux, OS X, and Solaris operating systems.

Unfortunately, there is also the disadvantage of running Kali Linux on a virtual machine; it is slower than running Kali Linux on a physical machine.

There are two options that can be utilized for installing Kali Linux on a virtual machine. The first option is to install the Kali Linux ISO image into a virtual machine. This option will take more time compared to VMware image installation. The advantage of this method is that you can customize your Kali installation.