What is Vmware?
Vmware is a virtual machine software which can be used to create and install virtual machine having a different OS.
What is Kali Linux?
Kali Linux is a dedicated Linux OS for penetration testing which is a newer version of the Backtrack5 developed by offensive security.
How to do?
Advantages:- Vmware is a virtual machine software which can be used to create and install virtual machine having a different OS.
What is Kali Linux?
Kali Linux is a dedicated Linux OS for penetration testing which is a newer version of the Backtrack5 developed by offensive security.
How to do?
- Now you will have to download 3 software namely 7zip, Kali Linux(Vmware image), Vmware workstation9. We will advice you to use torrent if your net connection is slow.
Kali Linux, Vmware workstation 9, 7zip - After the download is complete then install 7zip and extract the files from the kalilinux.rar file.
- Now install Vmware workstation 9 on the system. After the installation is done open Vmware workstation. Now click on open a virtual machine.And then open the Vmware image file of Kali Linux from the extracted files.
- After this it will ask you to configure various things like memory space, ram, etc. Follow the wizard. Make sure that you select the ram to be the half of the inbuilt ram of your computer.
- Now at last click on the power on this virtual machine button(this is like your power on button of your computer).
- Now the system will start. At the end it will ask you username and password. The default username is "root" and the password is "toor".
- After entering the username and password hit enter.
- We can use 2 machines simulataniously.
- It is easy to delete it.
- It is easy to install.