Install virtual machine using VirtualBox

For developers and students who have to work on multiple platform it is really important to have multiple operating system running on a single system. Developers need to test their product around multiple platforms and students might need their foot wet on different OS. And it is frustrating to run multiple OS in a single system by dual booting.

It will really be handy to have multiple OS running in your PC, but if you dont have the hard disk space or Enough primary drive to boot multiple drive, the concept of virtualization is what you are looking for.

Using virtualization you can have multiple virtual OS running your PC at low cost. "virtualization refers to the act of creating a virtual (rather than actual) version of something, including virtual computer hardware platforms, operating systems, storage devices, and computer network resources" this is the definition given by Wikipedia for virtualization.

INSTALLING KALI LINUX AS VIRTUAL MACHINE IN VirtualBox

Lets see how to create virtual version of all the above, but for this you need a software tool called hyper-visor. A hyper-visor allows to create virtual machine on a system or technically speaking host hardware. VirtualBox is a well know hyper-visor used by thousands of people for virtualization purpose.

Today lets see how to install Kali Linux in a VirtualBox to run as virtual machine, but before that if you are not aware of Kali Linux here is an introduction about it. Kali Linux is operating system based on Debian derived Linux, it is highly used in fields like penetration testing and digital forensics.

You need to download VirtualBox and Kali Linux for this purpose here are the links for them :

VirtualBox : Go Download

Kali LInux : Go Download

Since it is a lengthy process, here is the video tutorial of how to install it ,

You can follow the above method to install VirtualBox in other OS like Mac OS, Linux, Solaris and run other virtual environments.

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