Now, disable “ Automatic Screen Lock” by moving the slider. You would see a screen similar to the one below: Now, go back to the “All Settings” window and then click on “ Privacy“. You can change the time zone to your time zone.

This will bring you the “All Settings” window as shown below. I would like to make some minor changes to make sure the VM is not interrupted during pen testing. This section is purely optional, you can skip to the next section if you don’t want to customize it.Ĭlick on the triangle pointing downwards in the upper right corner and then click on the “ Settings” icon. You should now be booted into your Kali Linux desktop. Note: If you are using newer Kali versions (from year 2020 ), the username and password is “kali”. Now, login to your Kali Linux machine with the default username as root and password toor. You should now be able to see the grub menu. Hit “ Enter” in your keyboard. Now, click on “Network” as shown below and select “ Bridged Adapter” and then click on “ OK“.Ĭlick on your Kali Linux VM and then click on Start as shown below. I would suggest atleast a minimum of 2048 MB (2GB) of RAM. If you need to adjust the amount of RAM, click on “ System” and you can move the slider accordingly.

Now, right click on your Kali Linux Virtual machine as shown below and click on “ Settings“. If you want to change the name of the VM, simply click on the text and you can change it according to your will.įinally, click on “ Import” and wait for a few moments to import the Kali Linux Appliance. You would now see a window called “ Appliance settings” where you can configure stuff like the name of your VM, the amount of RAM to be allocated to your Kali Linux VM etc. ova Kali Linux image file and click on “ Open“.

Then click on “ File” and then click on “ Import Appliance“. ova file format which is a pre-installed Kali Linux machine. Using a pre-installed file saves us a lot of time as we don’t have to go through the whole installation process. Then download the Kali Linux ova file mentioned above and extract it using 7-zip or Winrar. The first thing you need to do is go ahead download and install Virtualbox in your system.

Virtual Box Extension Pack: Download Link ( ~22 MB).

Kali Linux 2019.1 Preinstalled Image: Download Link (Torrent) ( ~3.2 GB).

This is how I installed Kali Linux in virtualbox using the ova file method in my windows 10 PC along with its screenshots.

Setup kali virtualbox