Installing and configuring Kali Linux

Now that you have downloaded Kali Linux, we need to get it installed and ready. You will notice that there are few options for installing Kali Linux; I will be using a prebuilt virtual machine, which is currently version 2019.1.

Installation

If you leverage the Kali Linux prebuilt virtual machine, all you have to do is open it with VMware or VirtualBox. The VMware prebuilt machines will need to be extracted, but you can use 7zip to extract the virtual machine.

Leveraging the prebuilt virtual machines saves you the time of installing Kali Linux manually. Note that if you are prompted when opening a prebuilt virtual machine, then you can simply select "I copied it".

7Zip can be...