

VirtualBox is one of the best Virtualization software available free and opensource for Windows and Linux both. In this tutorial, our base operating system is Ubuntu and we use VirtualBox on it.

Now you will be asked to accept the License Agreement.Now click on Import to start the installation.After that, Browse the downloaded image file and click on the Next button.As seen in the image below, start the virtual box and click on the import button.Step 3 – Install Kali Linux on VirtualBox.Step 2 – Download Kali Linux Virtual Image.Step 1 – Download and Install VirtualBox.Step by Step Installation of Linux on VirtualBox.How to install Kali Linux on VirtualBox.Most developers provide pre-installed VirtualBox or VMWare images nowadays, ready for us to import.Īlso, Kali 2019.4 is the most visually beautiful version of Kali to date.

Modern technology has allowed us to try out different operating systems without having to dedicate a whole hardware-based system to it. It has never been that easy before to get started with Kali Linux. Now, I highly recommend reading my Top Things to do after installing Kali Linux article, which helps you securing your system and installing my favorite tools.Īlso a good resource to continue is my Best Hacking Books article, which also features a book specifically for Kali Linux.Īnd of course, the constantly updated Best Hacking Tools article. You successfully installed Kali Linux 2019.4 on VirtualBox. You can now login with the default credentials of: We are already ready to start our Kali Virtual Machine! How easy was that? Right-click the Kali VM and click Start -> Normal Start.

In case, you need more, that's where you can add more. So this should be perfectly fine for most use-cases. This storage is dynamically allocated, which means that it will only take up as much space from your actual hard drive as Kali is using, up to a maximum of 80GB. If you click on the Storage tab, you can see that by importing the Kali image, it automatically created a Hard Drive with 80GB of storage.
