![]() Click ‘Use an existing virtual hard disk file’. ![]() Memory size = ideally 4 Gb which is 4096 Mb.Click ‘Expert Mode’ and complete the following fields: Switch to the VirtualBox Manager and create a VM using the existing virtual hard disk file from the Metasploitable download. The compressed ZIP file is likely to be in the Downloads folder so extract the contents into a sub-folder from the current home folder: unzip Downloads/metasploitable-linux-2.0.0.zip Now that we have VirtualBox installed it is time to download the Metasploitable VM (approx 825 Mb) from Rapid7 from here which first requires the completion of a personal details form. Press the ‘+’ button, select the downloaded file, and ‘Install’ the Extension Pack.Double-click the downloaded file or these carry out these steps from within VirtualBox Manager: Next we need to install the Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack by downloading the file using the ‘Save’ option. Once VirtualBox has been installed then run it by either clicking on the icon or issuing the command ‘virtualbox’ from the Command Line Interface (CLI). For the above configuration I downloaded the latest ‘.deb’ file and via the File Explorer double-clicked on the file which opened the Ubuntu Software GUI app to do the install. We are going to install the VirtualBox VM on the following Linux desktop:įirst download the correct VirtualBox installation file for your platform from here. Metasploitable is available as a Linux-based Virtual Machine (VM) that can run on VMWare, VirtualBox and other virtualization platforms. Here we are going to cover installing and configuring Metasploitable together with Kali Linux as part of a Penetration Testing lab. In our recent article on Practicing your Hacking skills we covered a number of packages and websites where you can legally hone your Hacking skills.
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