Figure 2.9 Hard disk
In the third step (shown in Figure
2.9
, “
Hard disk
” [page 29]), you are prompted to choose a physi-
cal or virtual hard disk for your new virtual machine. Although a hard disk is not required to run
Kali Linux as a live system, add one for when we demonstrate the installation procedure later, in
chapter
4
, “
Installing Kali Linux
” [page 66].
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Figure 2.10 Hard Disk File Type
The content of the hard disk of the virtual machine is stored on the host machine as a file. Virtu-
alBox is able to store the contents of the hard disk using multiple formats (shown in Figure
2.10
,
“
Hard Disk File Type
” [page 30]): the default (VDI) corresponds to VirtualBox’s native format;
VMDK is the format used by VMware. Keep the default value, because you don’t have any reason
to change it. The ability to use multiple formats is interesting mainly when you want to move a
virtual machine from one virtualization tool to another.
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Figure 2.11 Storage on Physical Hard Disk
The explanation text in Figure
2.11
, “
Storage on Physical Hard Disk
” [page 31] clearly describes
the advantages and drawbacks of dynamic and fixed disk allocation. In this example, we accept
the default selection (Dynamically allocated), since we are using a laptop with SSD disks. We don’t
want to waste space and won’t need the extra bit of performance as the machine is already quite
fast to begin with.
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