You may refer to our other guides for Kali Linux:

Hope this guide was helpful in quickly running a Kali Linux VirtualBox VM. You can further customize your Kali Linux VM to suit your needs, such as modifying the allocated memory, CPU, network settings etc. When you are done, just close the window, it will give you options to save the state, PowerOff etc.

The default username and passwords are the same: kali.

The VM will be ready to run at this point! You can select the VM and start it.

Appliance setting dialogue box, keep all default options and click on import.

Select your Kali Linux VirtualBox image folder.

Now, you can add a new VM, by going to VirtualBox Creating a new Kali Linux Virtual Machine The extracted image folder should have two files as listed below (file name – version might vary):

After extracting, move your extracted Kali Linux VirtualBox VM folder to a place where you want to run the VirtualMachine (running as a Virtual Machine) – this is an optional step.

To extract the Kali Linux VirtualBox image 7zip file, you can open the 7zip file manager and extract it from there.

You can download 7-zip utility, from: Choose the correct version, such as – 64-bit Windows 圆4 – 7-Zip for Windows file? You would require 7-zip utility for uncompressing the Kali Linux VirtualBox image.

After unzipping, the size of the image expands to 12GB.

The image comes in a 7z compressed zip format, which helps to download the VirtualBox image faster, size of around 2.5GB.

Download the Kali VirtualBox compressed VM image from the official source.Virtualization platform – VirtualBox – have your Oracle VirtualBox installed if you haven’t already.Laptop disk space memory and CPU – Kali Linux recommends 20GB hard disk space and 2GB RAM for i386 and AMD64 architectures.For a quick installation, we will be using pre-made VirtualBox images available from Kali Linux official website. Prerequisites for installing Virtual Kali Linuxįirst, let us go through the simple checklist to prepare your computer for the Kali Linux Virtual environment. Let us quickly walk through the installation steps. It can be quickly installed in a Virtualization environment such as in VirtualBox on your Windows 11 – 64bit computer (or on Windows 10, don’t worry if you don’t have Windows11 yet. Kali Linux is a Debian based (like Ubuntu) Linux distribution designed for virtual forensics and penetration testing.

Installing kali linux on virtualbox