You can choose to launch the virtual machine with the default settings. And, it should appear right in your VMware player. And navigate through it till you find a file with the “. Here is the final look of the Kali Linux virtual machine we installed.Open VMware Workstation Player and then click on “ Open a Virtual Machine.” Now, look for the folder you extracted. The import process starts.Īfter the import process is completed, Power On the virtual machine.

Click on “Import”.Ĭlick “Agree” when the software license agreement pops up as shown below. You can also leave it to default values if you want. If you want to make any changes to the virtual machine settings like RAM, name etc, you can do it here. Browse to the OVA file we downloaded.Īfter selecting the OVA file, click on “Next”. It can also be accessed using shortcut CTRL+ I.Ī window like below will open. Now open Virtualbox and go to File Menu > Import Appliance as shown below. Your downloaded contents should look like below. This howto is using the Kali Linux 32bit OVA. We have performed this installation in the Oracle Virtualbox 6.

For this download the virtualbox image of Kali Linux 2020.2 from here. Now, let us see the simplest process to install Kali in Virtualbox. This release also replaces CherryTree, the note taking application with Joplin. The makers also included python2-pip once again to add support to some tools still depending on python2 although overall it upgraded to Python 3.8. The new tools included in this release include NextNet, the pivot point discovery tool and SpiderFoot the OSINT tool. Also now you can install Powershell by default by selecting the meta package while installing.

The login screen also has been given new graphics along with a new layout. This is like going back to its roots as Backtrack used to have this desktop environment. With xfce and gnome given Kali Linux feel, this release has given themes for KDE Plasma. Kali Linux 2020.2 has many brand new features. Since many versions have been released since we last wrote this article, we decided to update this article on how to install Kali in Virtualbox. The makers of Kali Linux have a released the second version (2020.2) of Kali Linux for the year 2020.

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