The system will prompt you to create a new user account for non-administrative activities. It is a good practice to use the system as a no -n root user. Re-enter the root password again to confirm it. Read the suggestions before you set the root password. It is important to set the root password (no need to tell it is Linux’s most powerful account) for the machine before we do anything. Select the keyboard configuration you want. For this article, I chose location as India. Select the language in which you want to continue the installation process. You can select these options using “tab” button. In the next window select “Standard Installer”.

It will boot and take you to the interface shown below. The virtual machine is created with the name you gave it. If you want to make any changes, click on Customize hardware or else click on Next. It will show you a summary of all the selections you made. Click on “Next”.Īllocate the hard disk memory for your virtual machine. Click on Next.Ĭhoose the name of virtual machine and its location as you like. The Guest operating system should be automatically selected for you, if not select Linux as OS and version as Debian 8.x (since I am installing a 32bit, make it Debian 8.圆4 if installing 64bit). Click on “browse” and browse to location of the iso file we just downloaded and select it. Initially, the “installer disc image file” field should be empty. Make sure the “Typical” option is selected, and click on “Next”. Once the download is finished, open Vmware Workstation (Version 12 used for this article). So we have to download a iso image (depending on your architecture yo- u can download a 32bit or 64 bit iso file). Unlike the makers of Kali Linux, Parrot Security have not yet provided a Vmware image to download. So be it.ĭownload the Parrot Security OS. One of our readers has requested us to make a guide on how to install Parrot Security OS in Vmware. Parrot Security sports many more tools than Kali Linux which includes software for cryptography, cloud, anonymity, digital forensics and of course programming. Apart from Kali Linux, there are many other pen testing distros available. Its regular updates and stability accord it the top spot. Kali Linux is the most popular and also my favorite pen testing distro.

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