Can anyone tell me how to install Kali on QubesOS? (2024)

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Can anyone tell me how to install Kali on QubesOS? (2024)

It would be nice to get info from creating ‘New Qube’.

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Two ways:

  1. Installing a KALI standalone VM
  • downloading the current Kali.iso from kali.org to (let’s say) personal qube / Download folder
  • open Qube Manager > Qube > New qube > Name=kali > yellow or blue > StandalobeVM > Template=none > Networking=default(sys-firewall) > NEXT
  • boot from file in qube “PERSONAL” > choose the iso.file
  • installing…
  1. installing a KALI template for use with an appVM
  • open dom0-Terminal

qvm-template install --enablerepo=qubes-templates-community-testing kali-core

  • and after download and install > create appVM with template=kali-core and use it like you do with all other appVMs

PLEASE: search here for “updating the kali-core template” via Qubes update function. You need special instructions to do the updates for the kali-core template

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Install kali-core from community testing repository

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I have selected TemplateVM
25 GB hard disc size selected
8 GB RAM set

All applications selected

Advanced:
from file in qube => ISO-Qube => kali-linux-2024.3-live-amd64.iso (selected)

Ok

However, it does not start to install

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Super TheGardner it works now!

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For a install from iso.file you can’t choose “TemplateVM”. You have to choose “StandaloneVM”

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Yes, I immediately adopted it where you wrote ‘StandaloneVM’.

I haven’t quite understood about ISO-live, is it always online or does it always have to be connected to the Internet?

How long does it take to download the data at a normal internet speed?

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I’m afraid I don’t understood your question here. So let me argue: the iso’s are always online (on the kali website) and will be updated to newer ones, if needed.
The problem for you may be, you’ll always have to create a new Standalone, when a new version of the kali.iso is available - assume this happens once in a year…

Assume the kali.iso should be around 4-6GB and it’ll take some time for download. Once you installed the .iso in the new StandaloneVM and it’s ready and booted up the first time, you can delete the .iso file from your personalVM or wherever you’d stored it for the install.

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As far as i know , ISO-live is labeled as “Live” because it offers capability to run the full Operating system from the ISO - or the drive - and use it as its without needing to install it , its a nice additional feature in some contexts where the purpose doesn’t have to be installing the system.
So no :slightly_smiling_face: it has nothing to do with a requirement to be online to install it.

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UPDATE: i found out that kali-core template build seems updated recently (this month) so you could try it instead , and ignore this comment.

I personally use a morphed Debian installation , i cloned Debian and upgraded it to Debian’s testing and security testing repos (Debian trixie) then finally to Kali’s repositories followed by updating and upgrading again.
This is an option if you don’t need Kali’s full graphical interface and menus , but prefer to run Kali as an App Qube with ‘seamless’ integration with Qubes OS.

This guide is similar to what i have done :slightly_smiling_face: :

Note : bookworm has taken place of bullseye (bookworm is the current stable release), trixie has taken place of bookworm as the testing (next stable release) as can be found on Debian’s website at the time of this post.
So take that into consideration if you follow the linked guide

https://forum.qubes-os.org/t/creating-a-kali-linux-templatevm/19071

I had been using this as i faced an issue before with updating Kali that i got it from community templates back then.