The first time we run it, we will get a prompt saying do we wish to mount an image to use as a “start-up disk”. The final settings view looks like the following:

In “Display” -> “Screen”, we make sure to have “Video Memory” set to 128 MBĪnother item to point out is to make sure that “Accelerated 3D graphics” is disabled, as people have reported that causes issues. In “System” -> “Processor”, we increase the “Processor(s)” to be 2.Īt the same time, we also enable “Extended Features” for Enable PAE/NX. In “System” -> “Motherboard”, we change the “Boot Order” to make sure Hard Disk is top and Optical is the second.

In “General” -> “Advanced”, we make sure to set “Shared Clipboard” to bidirectional, as well as “Drag’n’Drop” to bidirectional Now we click on “Settings”, to customize the VM further. We use 80.00 GB for our VMs.Īfter clicking on “Create”, the wizard is complete. Now with “File location and size”, we can now define how large the virtual hard disk will be. This screen below, “Hard disk”, allows us to Create a new virtual disk now.įor the “Hard disk file type”, we select VDI (VirtualBox Disk Image) (and its the default option).įor the following screen, “Storage on physical hard disk”, we go with the default option of Dynamically allocated. When we make the general VMs, we select 2048 MB (2GB) for RAM, but we often increase this for our personal machines as we have high-performing devices with spare RAM which Kali can utilize.

Various tools inside of Kali can be demanding of resources. Again, the higher the amount of RAM, the more applications can be open and at increased performance. “Memory size” is the next section, where we can define how much RAM to use. For the “Version”, we are going to be using the 圆4 desktop image, so we are going to select Debian (64-bit). Example: kali-linux-2023.1-vbox-amd64).įor the “Type”, we set it as Linux. We are keeping it generic in this guide (as Kali is a rolling distribution, and we update it), however for our releases, we use the version number in the name as it is a fixed release ( kali-linux-YYYY.N-vbox-ARCH.

This name is also used in any filenames (such as the configuration, hard disk and snapshot - which isn’t changed from this point). The next screen is “Name and operating system” which is where you name the VM. Upon starting up VirtualBox, select “New” (Machine -> New). You may need to enable virtualization in your BIOS/UEFI for (e.g.

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