Wait until Kali finishes detecting the hardware on your computer. If you use the standard American English keyboard, then just click Continue. It’ll now ask you for your standard keymap. On the next screen, select your location and hit Continue. The next screen will ask you to select your preferred language, you can use the mouse to select this, then click Continue.
Now all we have to do is start Kali and install it! To do this, highlight the name of the newly created virtual machine by clicking on it, and click Play virtual machine in the right pane.Īt the boot menu, use the arrow keys to scroll down to Graphical install and hit enter. You can now click on Close at the bottom of the Hardware window and then click on Finish in the Wizard.Īfter you click Finish the window will close and the new virtual machine file will be added to the VM library. In the small window that pops up, uncheck all the boxes except for the one next to your regular network adapter and hit OK. Now click on the Configure Adapters button. On the right side, move the dot to the Bridged (top) option. Moving on, click on Network Adapter in the left pane. This option really depends on your computer, if you have multiple processors, then you can select multiple or all processors for better performance. Now highlight Processors in the left pane. If your computer has 8 GB, then you can go to a max of 4 GB, etc. If your computer has 4 GB of RAM, then the max you want to slide it to is 2 GB. *Note, you should give a virtual machine a maximum of half the RAM installed on your computer. Since I have 8 GB of RAM on my computer, I’m going to put it at 2 GB’s (2000 Mb’s). Select Memory in the left pane of the window, and slide the slider on the right side to at least 512 MB*. You will now be presented with a Hardware window. In the next window, we need to customize some hardware settings, so click on the Customize Hardware… button. After you’ve entered your desired value (no less than 20 GB) change the next option to Store virtual disk as a single file and click Next. I recommend doing at least 30 GB’s as Kali tends to expand over time. Next step, you need to select a maximum size for Kali. You also need to select a location for it, I recommend creating a folder called “Virtual machines” in My Documents. I’m going to name it Tutorial Kali for this tutorial.
In the next step, select a name for the virtual machine. Once you have selected the file, click Next. In the window that opens, select Installer disc image file (iso), browse to the location of and select the Kali Linux ISO file that you just downloaded. When Kali has finished downloading, open VMware Player and click Create a new virtual machine.
Torrenting is usually a bit faster, but if you don’t have a torrent program, or don’t know what a torrent is, don’t worry about it and click ISO to do a normal download.
You can either direct download Kali through the browser’s download manager by clicking on ISO, or you can torrent it by clicking on Torrent. If you don’t have a 64-bit capable computer, or if you aren’t sure, then get the 32-bit version, as it will work on both architectures. Select the 64-bit version ONLY if you have a 64-bit computer. If you have a 64-bit capable computer (like me), then you probably will want the 64-bit version of Kali for performance and compatibility reasons. This tutorial assumes that you have some basic knowledge of your computer (amount of RAM, number of processors, x32 or 圆4 architecture, etc.) and that you’re using VMware Player as a virtual machine manager, not VMware Workstation or other software.įirst we need to download Kali from.
This tutorial will walk you through the difficult process of installing Kali Linux in VMware Player, a free virtual machine manager that can be downloaded from.