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Tips: Network setting in virtual machine

For Laptop user When you are trying your hand on a new OS, it is always a good idea to test that OS in a virtual machine (vmware player, oracle vm virtualbox etc) rather than installing it on a hard drive. By doing so, you can not only save your time and effort but if somehow your OS crashes, due to some or the other reason, then you can re-install it easily. Virtual machine gives you a virtual environment, where you can install multiple OSes and test them easily. It also allows you to connect multiple virtual OSes in a network (every OS shown here represent different machine, that can communicate with each other via virtual ip address). If you have installed Kali Linux on virtual machine, then change the network setting to NAT mode and your virtual OS will now act as wired virtual machine in LAN. But, if you want your virtual OS to connect wireless , then change your network setting to Bridge mode on your virtual machine and it will ask ssid and password to connect to your virtual...

Installing Kali Linux- A step-by-step instruction

Kali Linux, ver.: 1.0.3 Prerequisites: Minimum 8 GB of HDD space to install Kali Linux For i386 or amd64 architecture, a minimum of 512 MB RAM (1024 MB RAM recommended) An ISO or VMWare image can be downloaded from  Kali Linux  site Here, I am going to guide you step by step to install Kali Linux  (ver. 1.0.2) in a virtual machine. Procedure of installation is very much similar to Backtrack. Click on the above link to download Kali Linux. When you goto this link it will ask you to register, however registration is not mandatory to download Kali Linux. Either, you can register by giving your name or email address to receive information updates or simply you can skip this step and click on " No thanks, just want to download! ". Depending on the type, you can customize your download in ISO  or VMWare  format. Click on " Download Kali" . Once Kali Linux  is downloaded you are ready to install it in a virtual machine. I am using VMWare Player version: 5.0....