I still haven't managed to get Linux installed on a separate partition on my desktop. I can get it to go through the process to a point, then it freezes up and I boot back to windows to try and figure out why. For now that's another story. While I'm reading stuff, I've come across Kali -Linux, which is very interesting and confusing. On the downloads page it only seems to have a download for VMWare (amd64). Does this mean I have to run VMWare and then install Kali-Linux as a virtual machine within...say...Windows, or is there a way to install it as the Primary OS? Is that even a good idea? I don't get it? What's this thing with VMWare? By extension, does this also mean that when PenTesting a virtual machine like Metasploitable I end up with a Virtual Machine within a Virtual Machine. This is getting a little like a nightmare strait out of 'Inception'. Surely this can't be right. Cheers Scott
On Tue, 21 Oct 2014 18:06:53 +1100 Scott Junner <scott.junner@gmail.com> wrote:
I still haven't managed to get Linux installed on a separate partition on my desktop. I can get it to go through the process to a point, then it freezes up and I boot back to windows to try and figure out why.
For now that's another story.
While I'm reading stuff, I've come across Kali -Linux, which is very interesting and confusing. On the downloads page it only seems to have a download for VMWare (amd64). Does this mean I have to run VMWare and then install Kali-Linux as a virtual machine within...say...Windows, or is there a way to install it as the Primary OS? Is that even a good idea? I don't get it? What's this thing with VMWare?
By extension, does this also mean that when PenTesting a virtual machine like Metasploitable I end up with a Virtual Machine within a Virtual Machine. This is getting a little like a nightmare strait out of 'Inception'. Surely this can't be right.
Virtual Machines within a virtual machine is possible. There are some scenarios where this makes sense, but not many. Daniel.
Cheers Scott
got that one sorted. For some reason the link to their standard official downloads isn't easily found. On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 12:14 AM, dan062@yahoo <dan062@yahoo.com.au> wrote:
On Tue, 21 Oct 2014 18:06:53 +1100 Scott Junner <scott.junner@gmail.com> wrote:
I still haven't managed to get Linux installed on a separate partition on my desktop. I can get it to go through the process to a point, then it freezes up and I boot back to windows to try and figure out why.
For now that's another story.
While I'm reading stuff, I've come across Kali -Linux, which is very interesting and confusing. On the downloads page it only seems to have a download for VMWare (amd64). Does this mean I have to run VMWare and then install Kali-Linux as a virtual machine within...say...Windows, or is there a way to install it as the Primary OS? Is that even a good idea? I don't get it? What's this thing with VMWare?
By extension, does this also mean that when PenTesting a virtual machine like Metasploitable I end up with a Virtual Machine within a Virtual Machine. This is getting a little like a nightmare strait out of 'Inception'. Surely this can't be right.
Virtual Machines within a virtual machine is possible. There are some scenarios where this makes sense, but not many.
Daniel.
Cheers Scott
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