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kali linux can be installed on lima？ #1440

Open soibhanZhangxb opened 1 year ago

soibhanZhangxb commented 1 year ago

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Whether kali linux can be installed on lima, or how to do?

afbjorklund commented 1 year ago

Anything supporting Openstack / generic cloud should work, but Kali only supplies a .tar.xz with raw - no qcow2 image.

https://www.kali.org/get-kali/#kali-cloud

They also support Vagrant with VirtualBox, so the best would be to request the Kali distro to support Lima with QEMU ?

https://www.kali.org/get-kali/#kali-virtual-machines

But the distribution is quite specific, and the download is very big, so one could wonder what the use case would be...

Probably better to just install it as a VM, in UTM: https://www.kali.org/docs/virtualization/install-utm-guest-vm/ ?

You can also use LXC to run it in a container, on Lima: https://www.kali.org/docs/containers/kalilinux-lxc-images/

So it might not need a specific example after all, at least not until it is supported and documented in the upstream.