From the course: Introduction to Kali Linux for Penetration Testing and Ethical Hacking

Unlock the full course today

Join today to access over 22,400 courses taught by industry experts or purchase this course individually.

Installing Kali as an appliance

Installing Kali as an appliance - Linux Tutorial

From the course: Introduction to Kali Linux for Penetration Testing and Ethical Hacking

Start my 1-month free trial

Installing Kali as an appliance

- [Instructor] In order to establish a Pentesting lab, we'll need to set up a platform to run tests from and also set up a series of target systems to test. Let's start with the testing platform. Kali Linux is a special build of the Debian operating system which is pre-configured with a large number of testing tools covering web, infrastructure, and wireless testing requirements. It's the platform of choice for many Pentesters. Kali can be installed as the only system on a hardware platform, and this is known as a bare metal installation. It can be loaded as a second bootable image on a platform with an existing operating system, known as a dual boot installation. It can also be run as a virtual machine on VMware or VirtualBox. I'll be using this approach and loading it into the VirtualBox environment we've set up. Kali Linux can be loaded as what's known as an appliance, a pre-built form of virtual machine, which makes it…

Contents