Go to Systems tab on the Settings menu and there select the Processor tab. Just right click on the VM and select Settings. Click “Create” one last time and the VM is created.īefore starting the installation, you may also want to tweak the VM’s settings. By doing this, your VM will not take up the entire allocated size at once but would rather grow gradually as and when it needs more space. Keep the hard disk file type as VDI and set the it to be dynamically allocated. Select a size that works for you, when creating your Virtual Disk. Kali recommends a minimum disk size of 20GB, and for practical purposes you would want something larger than 40GB in size. Lastly, for storage select the “Create a virtual hard disk now” option as shown below and click “Create”. Anything above 2GB would result in a decent performance. Also allocate a sizeable amount of RAM to this VM. Select the Type as “Linux” and Version as “Debian (64-bit)”. In the “Create Virtual Machine” window, give your VM a reasonable name.

Click on the “New” button from the top left corner. Once the iso is downloaded, we are ready to install it inside a VM. The file is nearly 3 GB in size and it might take a while to download.

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