Confirmation before installation start writing changes to disk, click on continue.

Select the partition as “all files in one partition (recommended for new users) and continue.

You will get partition disk information that will data will be erased but that’s ok because there is nothing at the moment.

Select “ Guided- user entire disk” and click on Continue.

Enter the root password and click on Continue.

You will get a notification that “No network interface detected” but that’s fine.

As I am using VMWare on MAC, I will be sharing with MAC ethernet so selected “ no ethernet card” and click on Continue

Configure the keyboard to be used and click on continue.

Select the language and click on Continue.

You will be greeted with the following screen when I will select “Graphical Install” and press enter to proceed with the installation.

Click on the Play button to begin the installation.

I will increase to 15 GB and click on Apply.

Here you will notice, I have hard disk capacity is 8 GB but the minimum requirement to install 10 GB so I will go to customize Settings and increase the hard disk space.

Select Other > Other 64-bit and click on Continue.

It will appear in the list as shown below, click on Continue

Click on “Use another disc or disc image” and locate the downloaded iso file.

Select the installation method as “Install from disk or image” and click on Continue.

Open VMWare Fusion on your PC (I am using MAC in this demo).

This assumes you have download and ready to install Kali Linux. Its more than 3 GB so based on the Internet speed, it may take a few minutes.

For this demo, I have installed it as highlighted below. Installation Requirementsĭownload the necessary ISO file from the official download page. In this article, I will explain how to install Kali Linux on VMWare Fusion. To see a complete list of tools – click here

Having these preinstalled makes Kali Linux a true penetration testing platform for the security engineer. Kali Linux comes with more than 600 preinstalled penetration/security tools.

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