

By Pressing Start Button On The Main Menu Of Virtual Box. You may now start your new VM and begin installing Kali. Maybe this info might help someone else in the future. Look through the Kali Linux installation ISO image you previously downloaded from the official site (). Once in there, I saw that I was simply an idiot.Īs far as the aliases go, I was using. The persistence was there, I didn't realise that the things I had installed had already been moved to /opt, which is what I was going to try (assuming that the home folder was being wiped). I've been trying to assign a global alias in the meantime, and a profile.d script doesn't have any effect, but that's just an aside.ĭoes anyone know what I am missing? My understanding was that both of these methods would result in a persistent box.ĮDIT: My mistake. I'm kind of at a loss for why it is behaving the way it is. I figured it was a weird OVA thing, so downloaded the ISO and installed it in VBox manually. But no dice it seems any changes made to the home folder are reset on boot (but, crucially, all changes from apt update and upgrade remain). I first tried the OVA, thinking I could just tweak it and export it again and then use that. Here’s how to import the VirtualBox image for Kali Linux: Step 1: Launch VirtualBox. I'm trying to set up a VM image we can use at work that needs a few things installed, aliases setup, etc. Once you have installed VirtualBox and downloaded the Kali Linux image, you just need to import it to VirtualBox in order to make it work.
