VirtualBox is a very popular virtualization product, because it's free and it offers professional features. You will probably use VirtualBox for your virtualization environment. My base machine is either Windows or macOS, and I have VirtualBox installed on top of it, so I can use Kali Linux for my penetration testing tasks.
Kali offers us pre-built images for VirtualBox, so all we need to do is import them and start using Kali right away. Amazing, right? See the following steps:
- To download the VirtualBox image file, go to https://www.kali.org/downloads and scroll down a little bit, until you see the following section:

- Follow the link to the Offensive Security Download page. On that page, you will see a table that contains the virtual image copies for VirtualBox:

- Choose either the 32- or the 64-bit version, and download it locally to your...