Installing Kali Linux on the virtual machine

Once the virtual hard disk has been prepared and completed by following the steps from the previous section, we can then begin the actual Kali Linux installation process. In the Oracle VM VirtualBox Manager, which is the main OS management window for VirtualBox, we can see that the VM prepared for our Kali Linux installation is now available.

To the middle of the screen, we can also see the resources assigned, such as the Name and Operating System type in the General section, and the amount of RAM assigned in the System section. Other settings, such as the VRAM (an acronym for Video RAM), Network and Display settings can also be accessed within this section.

To begin our Kali Linux installation, ...

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