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Why is Kali released as a VM?
Typically educational lab stuff and homework will use a VM to facilitate a student quickly setting up an environment regardless of what the native one is, and easily being able to make a fresh one ...
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Why is Kali released as a VM?
As others have stated separating your pentest environment from your work environment is beneficial to both environments.
In addition some of the tools in Kali have to use unstable drivers, weak ...
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Why is Kali released as a VM?
Aside from the general isolation and packaging aspects mentioned by other answers, there’s a rather significant benefit to running pentesting tooling in a VM: It lets you snapshot the state of the ...
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Why is Kali released as a VM?
Kali Linux, as many Security Pentesting tool kits, is not that suited for typical use.
Add to that that it’s always a good idea to isolate such tools so they only can work in those parts you are ...
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Why is Kali released as a VM?
Pre-made virtual machines only mean that the tools are installed, configured and tested consistently. That's all. Some tools can be very difficult to get running.
It's only for your convenience.
Kali ...
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