Hello my techie and non-so techy friends my name is Dan Duran I'm the
chief technology officer at Rhyno cyber security
this is cyber security from the trenches and today i'm going to show you how to install kali
linux 2021.2 released on june 1st 2021 on mac os catalina that's 10.15.7 so let's get right into it
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one thing that i forgot to mention is that we're going to be installing first uh virtualbox
6.1.26 obviously you can run kali linux which is a linux distro on a mac os it doesn't make any sense
you have to have a virtual machine usually you can use virtualbox which is free or you can use vmware
whatever you like in this case we're going to be installing virtualbox
first all right so the first thing that you have to do is search for oracle virtualbox
and you land on this page here right um and just click on downloads
then you'll see osx hosts right here so click on osx host and you also have to download the uh the
pack so the oracle vm virtualbox extension pack so if you want uh your mouse and other um appliances
and devices to work peripherals to work with your vm box so click on all supported platforms here
and downloaded that as well in this case we're not going to do any checksums because
this is demonstration purposes so i'm just going to go and straight away uh install the uh
virtualbox 6.1.26 on my device all right so this is where i double click on the virtualbox package
and i continue with my installation
all right once installed you'll see this window says system extension blocked
so you have to open your security preferences for
your mac os and go ahead click on the little lock
all right so i've done that
and you have to click on allow right so oracle america inc and placeholder developer
okay once that is clicked just leave the lock open double click and do the installation again
perfect the installation was successful all right so now you have
virtualbox so usually what i do is just go back into my applications
find virtualbox put it in as one of my apps now i click on the extension pack
right so you'll see this little window that says install so i'm gonna go
agree enter my password again
okay installing extension pack and success all right so now we have
virtualbox installed that's the first step
the second step would be to install kali linux so just go to or search for kali linux downloads
and here it is you should land on kali dot org get dash kali
and we're gonna pick virtual machines so click on virtual machines and then click on virtualbox
and this is going to download the 3.7 gigabyte ova file so i'll fast forward this for a bit until
we are done with the download all right so now it should be installed so i'm going to go into
my downloads and yes uh here it is so i'm just going to double click on it
and this is going to prompt me to the appliance settings so do i want the mac address policy yes
now your base folder so set this up is usually users slash your username and then virtualbox
vms so i'll leave it the way it is and additional options import hard drives as
vdi so i'll leave this checked right so then the name you can change the name afterwards if you
want or you can click here so i'm just going to call it kali linux 2021.2 right and the product is
called linux and i'm rolling uh 64-bit ram i can increase this to 496 dvd sound card yes yes to all
of these right primary group and then just import click on import yes i agree to the terms and
conditions so this is going to take a little while six minutes so i'm just going to fast forward this
until we install the entire thing so if you installed it correctly this is what you should
see and all i have to do now is just press start and wait installing kali linux on virtualbox on
the mac os is extremely easy for windows there's a little more complication you have to set up
different configurations but for mac os it's extremely easy as soon as you install the ova
then you can just run your application and then it should be working without any problems
so here you just might want to click on the xs for your devices don't worry about those warnings
and here is the prompt for the login before i enter the credentials uh on the kali prompt
let me just give you a little bit of a background so in 2019 you were able to
type in root and then tour as a password to get into calendar expats since 2020 and now 2021
linux or kali linux actually creates a user for you so you don't have to use your root user inside
of your kali linux you can of course you can go into sudo su and and go back to your root user but
this is just a precaution automatically kali linux creates a user for you and the username is kelly
right and the password is also cali so cali and cali and that should log you in
and there it is now let's test it out to make sure that everything is working perfectly
first thing i'm going to do is uh see if i have an ip address so ifconfig
right so there it is inet this is your local ip address and i am also going to
ping my mac os ip address so let me just ping this to make sure that i'm communicating with
my my mac os as part of my nat and yes this seems to be working fine a couple things that
i can do i'm going to launch my browser to make sure that i have access to the internet
so here it is let's just go to any website let's see youtube see if youtube is working
and i'm also going to do fast.com to make sure that i have some speed
some bandwidth so i can see that i have 12 11 megabits per second youtube is working very
very slowly there it is but i i see it maybe it's because of the ram that i have put into uh my box
which i can actually fix if i wanted to the way you do it is just you go into your settings here
right so click on settings and once you click on settings then you'll be able to fix your system
right so system and here you can increase i can't increase it you have to turn off this instance in
order uh for you to be able to change the ram um and of course i'm running one cpu uh i can put
it up to two cpus i only have eight cpus on this machine so that's why it's running a little slower
but for demonstration purposes obviously i think this is more than good enough i can access youtube
and other stuff so thank you guys i hope you had fun make sure you leave your comments down below
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so cheers i hope you enjoy next time we'll look at my favorite tools for using in kali linux
so we can start learning a bit more about uh cali and linux in general so see you next time