There are many other options available for virtualization, including the free UTM app which allows you to easily run Windows 11 on an Apple Silicon Mac for example, but there’s also paid solutions including VMWare and Parallels.

Go to to find the appropriate download, listed as “Developer preview for macOS / Arm64 (M1/M2) hosts”.As usual, VirtualBox is completely free to download and to use. While technically in beta, anyone can get access to the developer preview beta ARM build of VirtualBox through the VirtualBox website. It does this by virtualizing hardware (that you can adjust to allocate RAM, storage capacity, etc), so the operating system itself doesn’t know that it’s not running on actual hardware. In the official download page, you will see the links for the page from where you can download the VirtualBox Images.VirtualBox is virtualization software that allows you to run other operating systems in containers on your Mac directly from the application, for example you can run Linux or Windows directly within VirtualBox, and without having to use dual-booting or anything else.

Step 1 – Download the Kali Linux VirtualBox Image In you have not installed VirtualBox 6 yet, please refer to my blog here.īelow are the steps. It involves downloading the image, and opening the virtual machine in VirtualBox.

Setting up Kali Linux in VirtualBox 6 using VirtualBox image is pretty straight forward. How to install Kali Linux 2020.2 in VirtualBox 6 using Kali Linux VirtualBox image So, to get it straight, you can use the Kali Linux images to setup Kali Linux and then update to the latest version later by logging into Kali Linux if the latest version of Kali Linux Image is not available. Latest version of Kali Linux Images may also be available. Generally it is a at least one previous version that is available for download. Please note that generally Kali Linux does not offer the latest version of the Kali Linux images for VirtualBox, VMWare and Hyper-V.

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