VirtualBox can run on many platforms, including Windows, macOS, Linux, and Solaris. In this section, we install VirtualBox 5.1.28 into our host machine and take it from there.
VirtualBox can be found at https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads:
Once VirtualBox has been downloaded, it can be installed and then configured to run Kali Linux and many other operating systems, depending on the amount of RAM available.
When setting up a new guest OS or guest virtual machine, we first click on New
and then fill in the following details:
- Name:
Kali-Forensic
(or name of your choice) - Type:
Linux
- Version:
Debian (64-bit)
We then click Next
and proceed to allocate RAM in the Memory size
prompt:
In the preceding Memory size
screenshot, we can see the maximum RAM capacity to the right of the screen. The machine I used has 16,384 MB (rounded off to 16 GB) of RAM. Although the recommended memory size for Kali is a meager 1024 MB (1 GB)...