A detailed guide on installing Kali Linux on VirtualBox

Step 8: Install Virtualbox Guest Additions packages

Now that you’ve installed Kali Linux on Virtualbox, you need to install from Virtualbox Guest Additions packages. Guest Additions are designed to be installed inside a virtual machine after the guest operating system has been installed. They consist of device drivers and system applications that optimize the guest operating system for better performance and usability. This enables the follows for you:

1. 1. Mouse pointer integration
   2. Shared folders
   3. Better video support
   4. Seamless windows
   5. Time synchronization
   6. Shared clipboard

Without installing VirtualBox Guest Additions package, you screen will be 1024×768 or lower resolution and you wont be able to make Kali run in full screen, leverage any of the shared clipboard functionality.

Step 8.a: Mount VirtualBox Guest Additions drive and install dependencies

From device menu on your VirtualBox, click on Install Virtualbox guest additions option (while you’re running Kali Linux) and you’ll see a CD/DVD drive is mounted.

While you’re at it, install all the dependencies by running the following command: (so there you go, I fixed the darned typo)

apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r)

Step 8.b: Copy and install the package

Copy the VBoxLinuxAdditions.run file from the drive to the root directory using following command

cp VBoxLinuxAdditions.run /root/

Make it executable:

chmod 755 /root/VBoxLinuxAdditions.run

Install it:

./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run

Once you’ve installed VirtualBox Guest Additions package, reboot Kali Linux.

Now you will have Kali Linux running on full screen.

Conclusion

THAT WAS A LONG GUIDE.

Followings are some of the guides I have in darkMOREOps.com. They will surely keep you busy for few days. I suggest looking around in Kali forums and generally Google for more interesting stuffs.

Note: Any guide that involves GPU cracking will NOT work in VirtualBox. GPU cracking requires HDD installation.

Cracking Wifi WPA/WPA2 passwords

• Cracking Wifi WPA/WPA2 passwords using pyrit cowpatty
• Cracking Wireless WPA2 WPA passwords with Hashcat
• Cracking Wifi WPA/WPA2 passwords using Reaver-WPS

Cracking password hashes

• Cracking MD5, phpBB, MySQL and SHA1 passwords with Hashcat

DOS/DDOS attacks

• DOS attack on Windows 2008 R2 server and Windows 7
• DOS using hping3 with spoofed IP

Metasploit related

• Hack Remote PC with Metasploit

SQLMap and Google Dorks

• Use SQLMAP to hack a website
• Google Dorks / Google Hacks

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