How it works...
In this recipe, we created our first virtual machine in VirtualBox, set the reserved amount of memory our base operating system will share with it, and created a new virtual hard disk file for the VM to use and set the maximum size. We also configured the VM to start with a CD/DVD image and, from there, installed Kali Linux the same way we would install it on a physical computer.
To install Kali Linux, we used the graphical installer and selected guided disk partitioning, this is, when we install an operating system, especially a Unix-based one, we need to define which parts of the system are installed (or mounted) in which partitions of the hard disk; luckily for us, Kali Linux's installation can take care of that and we ...
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