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Setting Up Your Virtual Machine
Now let’s get you started with your virtual machine.
VirtualBox should open
once it has installed—if not, open it—and you should be greeted by the
VirtualBox Manager, as seen in Figure 4.
Figure 4: The VirtualBox Manager
Since we will be creating a new virtual machine with Kali , click
New
in the upper-left corner. This opens the Create Virtual Machine dialog
shown in Figure 5.
Give your machine a name (any name is okay, but I simply used Kali) and
then
select
Linux
from the
Type
drop-down menu. Finally, select
Debian
(64-bit)
from the third drop-down menu (unless you are using the 32-bit
version of Kali, in which case select the Debian 32-bit version). Click
Next
,
and you’ll see a screen like Figure 6. Here,
you need to select how much
RAM you want to allocate to this new virtual machine.
Figure 5: The Create Virtual Machine dialog
Figure 6: Allocating memory
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As a rule of thumb, I don’t recommend using more than 25 percent of
your total system RAM. That means if you have installed 4GB (or 4096MB)
on
your physical or host system, then select just 1GB for your virtual machine,
and if you have 16GB on your physical system, then select 4GB. The more
RAM
you give your virtual machine, the better and faster it will run, but
you must also leave enough RAM for your host operating system and any
other virtual machines you might want to run simultaneously.
Your virtual
machines will not use any RAM when you are not using them, but they will
use hard drive space.
Click
