Kali Linux - Installation

Installation of Kali on Vmware

Vmware Workstation enables users to set up virtual machines on a single physical machine and use them simultaneously along with the actual machine. A Virtual machine can be downloaded from www.vmware.com. Download kali from http://kali.org/downloads/ 64 bit or 32 bit as per your computer capability.

Click on create a new virtual machine by selecting the Installer disc image file (ISO), and review the configured virtual machine and then powered on the created kali virtual machine.

At the boot menu, many options are available so I am going to describe all boot menu options briefly:

Live (amd64)

Probably the one you’re searching for. This one will boot you into Kali, but only in the Live mode. That means, that when you terminate/shutdown your laptop everything you’ve saved/edited in Kali is lost. So if you make a file on your desktop, that file will be lost when you restart. This is possible because Kali only writes to RAM and not your HDD.

Live (forensic mode)

This is a special and interesting mode. In this mode, the internal HDD is never touched, and the auto-mounting of devices is disabled. You’ll use this when performing forensics on a device (e.g. recovering sensitive files, getting evidence in crime scenes.)

Live USB Persistence

Use this if you want to install Kali on the USB you booted from, this way you can save what you’ve done, etc. If you now place a file on your desktop, it’s saved on your USB and is again accessible when you boot from it.

Live USB Encrypted Persistence

Same as above. Alone with this option, your USB is also encrypted with LUKS. If you choose USB Persistence, choose this one!

Graphical

• Install – If you want to install it on your HDD. • Install with speech synthesis - Install it, the text from the installation-menu is read out to you

Setup Kali linux

After selection of Graphical install, you will get the multiple next windows of Preferred language selection- English (select as per your choice) then click continue Location – United States (select as per your choice) click continue Standard keymap – American English (select as per your choice) click on continue On the next screen you will ask to configure the network, select Do not configure the network at this time and hit the continue. Now in a single word, you can provide the hostname e.g. Kali (any name as per your choice). Then click on continue.

Set the password for the root account. Don’t forget the password you have set for the root account otherwise you have to install kali again.

On the next screen, select the time zone and click continue.

Kali detects the disk partitions. Select guided-use entire disk then click continue. Installer confirms that partition you are going to use. Click continue.

Select the All files in one partition and click on continue.

Selection of disk partition has been done, you can see the overview of partition disk you currently configured, and select the Finish partitioning and write changes to disk. After that click on continue.

Click on yes to make the changes to disk as per the selected partition changes. Then click on continue.

After partition, now Kali will start installing, you have to around 30 minutes for installation. After Kali installation, on the next screen, you will get the network mirror option. You need to select No and click on continue.

You get the option to install the GRUB boot loader as it should be safe to install it to the master boot record of your first hard drive. Select yes and click on continue.

Select the boot loader device for GRUB installation. Select /dev/sda and click Continue.

Now you will see the installation complete dialog box. Click to continue to finalize the installation and wait for the VM to reboot. After reboot, you will see the login screen. Log in with your username or root user and provide your password. You will then see the Kali Linux desktop.

Once the VM reboots, you will see the Kali Linux login screen.

Login with username: root, Password: toor, what you entered during the installation process earlier.

Successfully, Kali installation has been done, now you can start working on Kali Linux.

Installation of Kali Linux on Virtual Box

VirtualBox is a software system for virtualizing the x86 computing design. It acts as a hypervisor, making a VM (virtual machine) within which the user will run another OS (operating system). The OS within which VirtualBox runs is named the “host” OS.

The OS running within the VM is named the “guest” OS. VirtualBox supports Windows, Linux, or macOS as its host OS. If you have already got put in VirtualBox then well smart otherwise install the newest version and install it from https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

Prerequisites

▪ VirtualBox installed in your Linux system ▪ the image of Kali Linux present in your system ▪ at least 4GB of RAM ▪ at least 20-30GB of free disk space ▪ network to have a system updated ▪ a processor with the virtualization features enabled (often activated by default)

In virtualization, the guest OS is the virtualized system (so our Kali Linux) and the host OS is our Linux system. You can summarize the configuration that was created by you.

Installation

Launch the installation by clicking the green arrow button to start.

On the next screen, you will see the installer options, select Graphical install.

After the selection of Graphical install, you have to follow all the steps the same as you have done at the time of installation of Kali Linux on VMware. Setup Kali linux