A detailed guide on installing Kali Linux on VirtualBox A lot of the users would like to do crazy stuffs with their Kali Linux. If you’re doing something you’re not sure, you want to install unknown packages, modify some code but don’t want to break your HOST OS, running and installing Kali Linux on VirtualBox is the best way to go. You could also try using VMware but as VMware is proprietary and VirtualBox is free to use, there’s no argument which way usual users would go. Running Kali Linux on VirtualBox is great as in that way all you need to do is take a snapshot and if you break sometime, you can quickly roll back. This imposes another problem though. If you keep breaking things and keep rolling back for everything, you don’t really learn the Operating System itself. You are learning to bypass and overlook a problem with a easy way out.
Each time I try installing *software-center * on Kali, I get: E: Package 'software-center' has no installation candidate. Install Configure Inadyn Linux. Linux Mint is a community-driven Linux distribution based on Debian and Ubuntu that strives to be a 'modern, elegant and comfortable operating system which is both.
I am going to judge that? Linux can be quite complicated sometimes specially you never used it before. You might have just heard about Kali Linux from a friend and learned how much it can achieve and wanted to give it a try without actually installing it in your hard disk alongside your primary OS (may that be Windows or Linux or MAC).
Pros of running Kali Linux on VirtualBox • You can run more than one OS simultaneously. • You can install/re-install/backup/move/restore/rollback your guest OS easily. • You can manage allocation of resource (Memory, Hard disk). Resource Management! • You can copy your VirualBox to a different machine. • You can completely break your installation and roll back in few clicks. • You’re forced to troubleshoot and thus learn.
• Great for learning and testing. Cons of running Kali Linux on VirtualBox • Performance drop. Usually much slower. • GPU Acceleration doesn’t work. • USB Wireless cards can be problematic.
• You tend to avoid learning troubleshooting and just rollback quite often. • You won’t be comfortable installing and running in real machine if you’re too used to VM’s.
• Can’t use FULL graphics as the card is Virtualized. • Adds an additional layer between OS and actual hardware. Saying all that, it’s true for any Virtualized environment. If you’re learning, testing. Yes go ahead. Even best one uses VM’s to test cause it’s just too much time consuming to install and re-install and update. What is VirtualBox is a general-purpose full virtualizer for x86 hardware, targeted at server, desktop and embedded use.