Press OK and your settings should look like this: In Display -> Screen, make sure to have Video Memory set to 128MB.Īlso, make sure to have 3D Acceleration disabled as people have reported it causes issues. Leave it disabled if you’re using a 64-bit system. In System -> Processor enable the extended feature named Enable PAE/NX ONLY if you’re using a 32-bit system. In System -> Motherboard change the Boot Order so that Hard disk is on top and Optical is the second. Go to General -> Advanced and make sure to set Shared Clipboard and Drag n’ Drop to bidirectional. Select the Kali virtual machine and click on Settings to customize it further. We still have some small tweaks to ensure we have a healthy virtual machine. The wizard is complete! Awesome 😎 Advanced Virtual Machine configurations If you’re ok with the setup, then press Finish. If you made a mistake and you’d like to change something, you can go back and do it. You can also opt not to add a Virtual Hard Disk. My SSD has a total of 2TB and I’m ok with allocating it 100GB. Kali tends to be more efficient than Windows, and allocating more resources will cause Windows to get sluggish.Ĭlick Next once you’re ready to move to the next step.Īs the name suggests, we can create a Virtual Hard Disk.
I’d say you should go with something between 25-50% of your maximum RAM. In this example, I’m going with 6GB of RAM (6144MB in binary). Various tools inside Kali can use a lot of resources. The higher amount of RAM, the better the performance.
Hardware is the next section where we can define how much RAM to use. The Type and Version fields will be automatically completed when you select the ISO Image. Then select the Kali Linux ISO file you just downloaded and then click Next. It will be used in any filenames such as configuration, hard disk, and snapshot. Start up VirtualBox and click the New button. Let’s finally configure the virtual machine and then install Kali Linux! Make sure to consult your motherboard’s manual if you cannot find the virtualization setting. Intel users may find the setting labeled as VT-d or VT-x. If your virtualization is disabled you must go to your UEFI/BIOS and enable it. To check if virtualization is enabled, press CTRL + SHIFT + ESC to open Task Manager -> Performance then see the Virtualization label. One final check you must do before initiating the installation is to enable virtualization in your BIOS/UEFI system.
If you want to install all the tools that Kali comes with, select the Everything version.įor this tutorial, we’re going to install the recommended version. Head over to and download the desired ISO image.ĭownload the 64-bit only if you’re running a 64-bit CPU. You can skip this step if you already have it installed. If you don’t have VirtualBox installed, head over to and download the latest version.
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