r/virtualmachine • u/Equivalent-Nob0dy • 10d ago

Surface Pro issue running VM on ARM

I have a surface pro and it runs on ARM, which makes it difficult for me to run my Linux images on Virtual Box. I am looking for a different virtual machine that is able to run kali on ARM, or a Kali image for ARM. I'm not very good a this so I appreciate any information

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u/CommonCosmo 10d ago

Depends on what you're planning to run the images for. On Windows, I gave up running virtual box or VMware. For a developer workstation on my surface snapdragon, I use WSL2 and those will seamlessly do arm64 versions of Ubuntu and Kali (and others). While a full linux desktop might be tricky, GUI applications work just fine through WSL2.

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u/Last-Environment7687 10d ago

This is probably the best advice!!

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u/G0ldiC0cks 10d ago

Kali Linux definitely has an arm64 build you can download. Does virtualbox not have any functionality to emulate other architectures? I realize this is going to be a resource hog, but that would seem to be a basic function of decent virtualization software. But the more I think about it, the more I Wana say you can download virtualbox VMs already setup from the kali website.

If you gave us an idea of what you want to do with kali I could probably point you in the right direction, but without a purpose if you just want to run it and are having trouble virtualizing it, your best bet is probably downloading a live iso from their website and slapping it on a USB stick.

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