What Hypervisor Comes Already Installed in Kali Linux?
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Kali Linux is most popular penetration testing and offensive security testing suite that comes pre- loaded with dozens of tools. Kali Linux is a Debian based distribution. VirtualBox is a powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product. Virtualbox is a type-2 (aka hosted) hypervisor.

For which hypervisors does Kali Linux offer custom images?

Kali Linux offers custom images for VMWare and VirtualBox hypervisors. Tools such as VirtualBox Guest Edition are recommended to be installed on the guest OS.

Which is inbuilt hypervisor in Linux?

Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) is an open source virtualization technology built into Linux®. Specifically, KVM lets you turn Linux into a hypervisor that allows a host machine to run multiple, isolated virtual environments called guests or virtual machines (VMs).

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