Installing Kali Linux on a virtual machine

Installing Kali Linux on a hard disk is the first step. The process of installing Kali Linux on a physical hard disk or on Virtual Hard Disk is absolutely similar. So, feel free to use the same steps to install Kali Linux on your physical machine. Needless to say that by using this method only Kali Linux 2.0 will be installed on your hard disk as the primary operating system.

Getting ready

Before installing Kali Linux, you will require Kali Linux Latest ISO Image, which can be downloaded from https://www.kali.org/downloads/ .

How to do it...

Perform the following steps for this recipe:

  1. Open VMware on your macOS and press command + N, once the same is done we will see something like the following screenshot: ...

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