We will use the official Kali Linux ISO provided by Offensive Security to install and configure different desktop environments such as Mate, e17, Xfce, LXDE, and KDE desktops.
To start with this recipe we will use the 64-bit Kali Linux ISO listed on the Offensive Security website:
https://www.kali.org/downloads/
Note
For users looking to configure Kali in a virtual machine such as VMware, VirtualBox, and so on, a pre-built image of the Linux can be downloaded from https://www.offensive-security.com/kali-linux-vmware-virtualbox-image-download/.
We will use the virtual image in this chapter and customize it with some additional tools.
You can configure Kali with the help of the given steps:
- Double-click on the VirtualBox image, it should open with VirtualBox:
- Click
Import
:
- Start the machine and enter the password as
toor
:
- Now, Kali is started and by default is configured with the GNOME desktop environment: