Bidirectional).Īs always, if you have any questions, feel free to leave a comment or tweet me at published at on February 22, 2019. cd ~/Downloads/Īfter the script has finished, restart the system and then make sure to set the “Shared Clipboard” and “Drag‘n’Drop” values in the “Advanced” tab of the Kali VM’s General Settings to the appropriate value (e.g. Then, open a terminal and type the following commands. Click on the green Start icon to fire up Kali Linux. Once the VM is loaded, you will see it appear in VirtualBox.

Navigate to the folder where you extracted the Kali Linux image (we’re looking for a.

With the Linux headers installed, we can insert the Guest Additions CD using the “Devices” menu and copy all the files from the CD to the Download folder. Click on the green plus-icon labeled Add. So, here are the steps to install the VirtualBox Guest Additions in Kali.įirst, we need the Linux headers, the command to do that is: apt- get install linux-headers-$(uname -r)

To do that, we need to install what VirtualBox calls the Guest Additions. If you use VirtualBox, you know how annoying it is when you cannot drag-and-drop files or copy-and-paste text from your host to your VM and vice versa. Now that we have successfully installed the Virtual Box, lets move on to the next step and install Kali Linux.

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