Hacking World: Installation of kali linux in Vmware

Backtrack vs Kali vs Kali 2.0

I know that this title doesn't make sense, but I just want to let you know the different between these penetration platforms. Backtrack is the mother of penetration testing distros, first release of Backtrack released before 10 years. It's a debian based distro & is no longer being maintained. After Backtrack 5.0 R3, Kali was released & It's also called as the new Backtrack or BT 6. Kali 2.0 is the latest one to be released among all the three with better snappier interface, automatic updates & new Kernel.

Let's jump into the topic and proceed with the installation

How to install Kali 2.0?

In this post, I used Vmware workstation 11 to demonstrate the installation of Kali 2.0. Below steps will guide you to create a VM in Vmware.

Open Vmware workstation software, And click Create New Virtual Machine. Typical is selected by default, Click Next.

Next you will be asked to select the ISO file, click browse window & select the downloaded ISO file.

Select the Guest Operating System type as Linux & let version to be Debian 6.

Give a proper name to your Virtual Machine, And it in a location where you have atleast 10GB free. I have named mine as Sana, A cool one isn't it?

Give the maximum disk space that you are going to allocate for thisVM, 20GB would be sufficient in my opinion. I recommend to store the VMDK file as a single file since it would be easier to move and to convert to other formats.