Kali Linux on Windows 10 VMWare Workstation is!slow! I've installed Kali Linux as a VM on a high end Windows 10 Pro 64 system. Unlike Windows XP and Windows 7 VMs, this one runs slower than as if it were running from a live CD.
If you haven’t done so already, have a look at Eric’s post on Altaro’s Hyper-V sister blog. As it turns out, I have been wanting to try Kali Linux for quite some time, now that I have a rekindled interest in information security. So while I’m at it, I thought, why not write a post to the benefit of our VMware audience as well. So here it goes.Why Install Kali Linux on VMware?Kali is free to use and comes with no less than 600 penetration testing. I’ll let the following quotation speak for itself!“Kali Linux is a Debian-based Linux distribution aimed at advanced Penetration Testing and Security Auditing. Kali contains several hundred tools which are geared towards various information security tasks, such as Penetration Testing, Security research, Computer Forensics and Reverse Engineering.”. Kali images distributed as virtual machinesAfter you finish downloading the image, make sure that the downloaded file’s SHA256 checksum matches that listed on the website.
This rules out any tampering with the image file. Apart from Eric’s PowerShell technique, you can use the CRC SHA tool which you’ll find in the Windows Explorer’s context menu if you have installed. To use CRC SHA, simply right-click on the downloaded image and select the appropriate CRC type from the menu as shown in the next screenshot. Using 7-Zip’s CRC tool to verify the integrity of downloaded imageAs can be seen, the SHA-256 checksum returned for the file matches the one listed on the Kali website, so I’m good to go.Where to host it?Unless I missed it, the Kali website does not specify which VMware product to use when deploying from the VM image provided.
A quick inspection, quickly reveals that the intended product is VMware Workstation Player as the VMDK is split across several files (sparse), something not supported on ESXi even though you can use to convert them to a. The same information can be obtained by looking at the primary VMDK file which happens to be the disk descriptor file. There are also no VMDK flat files, another indication of this being a non-ESXi VM. RebootOption 2: Use VMware vCenter Converter Standalone to migrate the VM hosted on VMware Workstation to an ESXi host.Note: If you’re new to using Converter, have a look at which gives you a good overview of how to migrate VMs, or physical machines, to ESXi. In our case, make sure to power off the Kali VM before proceeding and to supply the vCenter Server details if the ESXi host is managed.The next video covers the conversion process where I convert the Kali Linux VM hosted on Workstation to run on a vCenter Server managed ESXi 6.5 host. VMware Tools details in vSphere Web Client (Open-vm-tools running on Kali)ConclusionIf you’re into penetration testing, forensics or simply curious to learn more about security tools, it’s definitely worth the time learning now you know how to install Kali Linux on VMware hypervisors. If you don’t want to go, Kali is distributed as ready-to-use image for VMware Workstation Player.
Alternatively, you can easily convert the VM to run on ESXi using VMware vCenter Converter.Make sure to visit Kali’s documentation for the latest info. An IT veteran for over 23 years, I covered various roles throughout my career. Prior to joining Altaro as a blog writer and QA tester, I was employed as an infrastructure engineer at a cloud services provider working exclusively with VMware products.
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Hello, welcome to another Article, in this article I will show you How to create a bootable USB for Kali Linux on Windows 10. Installing different or experiencing different kinds of the operating system might be good, but you might know how to and in this article, I will show you the easiest way of creating a Bootable USB for Kali Linux, for this purpose, I will use “Power ISO” software. And you all know that “Power ISO” is a software that we can store our files Such as Windows, Mac OS, Mac Mojave ISO files to burn on CD/DVD with “Power ISO” sometimes we use Power ISO to keep our files from viruses.