How to make kali linux virtual machine in Windows
Hello guys,
There many ways to install and use kali
linux on your system without losing host operating system. One of them method
of installing kali linux on VMware or other virtual machine. You can download a
virtual machine and install kali linux in it and use an another operating
system in your main host operating system, but you don’s know how you can do
this then this post can help you. So follow the steps given herer.
Before
starting, you need a kali linux ISO you can download it from it’s official site
kali.org. You also need a virtual machine software you can
download Virtual Box or Vmware and install it on your system. I consider
you have downloaded kali linux ISO and virtual machine, so let’s start –
Step 1:- Open virtual machine that you have
downloaded click file and here click on New Virtual Machine. It
will open a welcome wizard don’t do any changes here and click next. Now
you have to choose I will install the operating system later and click next,
as you can see in the following picture.
Step 2:- Then you have to choose you guest
operating system, here I have selected Linux and also you have to select
your guest operating system version. See the following picture.
After it you
have to enter your virtual machine name and you can also set the path where you
want to store virtual machine on hard disk. You can simply click on browse
button and choose location on hard disk and click next. As you can see
in the following image –
After it you
have to enter disk size in GB for virtual machine, I recommend you to give at
least 20GB disk space for virtual machine and click on next.
Step 3:- Now your virtual machine has
created. Now you have to install kali linux on this virtual machine, so click
on CD/DVD (IDE) and choose Use ISO image file and click
browse you kali linux ISO file from your computer by clicking on browse
button that you have downloaded and click ok button. See the following
picture –
Now you have
to click on start button as you can see in the picture below-
Step 4:- After starting virtual machine kali
Boot Menu will be opened, here select Graphical Inastall. Then it will
ask you to hostname so enter hostname and click on continue. And then it will
ask for password so enter password for kali linux operating system and confirm
password by re-typing your password. See the following pictures –
Step 5:- Now you have to choose Guided –
use entire disk partition method and click on continue button. Now
you have to select Partition Disk and click on continue button
and again click on continue button.
Note – make sure selected partition disk is empty otherwise you
will lose your data on selected disk because this disk will be erased.
After it
select Finish Partitioning and write change to disk and click continue.
It will ask again to write changes partition disk click on yes and click
continue button. See the following pictures –
Now your
system is installing, after installing you have to configure package manager.
It will ask you to Use network mirror you have to choose No and click
continue. See the following picture –
Now you can
see installing process has started it will take some time to complete. After
completing installing process you can run kali linux virtual machine and use it
as an another computer system.
If you face
any problem then comment below.
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