Creating and configuring a VirtualBox virtual machine on Kali Linux with a Windows 11 ISO image

Learn how to create and configure a VirtualBox virtual machine on Kali Linux step-by-step using a Windows 11 ISO image. This guide will help you easily install Windows 11 in a virtual environment, optimize system parameters for stability and high performance, and solve common problems that may occur during installation.

1. Download Windows 11

2. Configuring VirtualBox

3. We install Windows 11

4. We configure Windows 11

Download Windows 11

Step 1

Open the browser

Step 2

enter the code:

$ sudo su
# apt install virtual box
# virtual box

Step 3

Open the browser

Step 4

Follow the link: https://www.microsoft.com/ru-ru/software-download/windows11

Step 5

Select the iso image and click “Download”

Step 6

Download the 64-bit version

Configuring VirtualBox

Step 7

Click on “New”

Step 8

We enter data for the account and move on

Step 9

You can modify the hardware by changing the amount of RAM and the virtual number of CPUs, then click “Next”

Step 10

We name our virtual machine, specify the path of our ISO image and move on

Step 11

Choose the size of the Virtual Hard disk and click “Next”

Step 12

Click “Finish”

Step 13

Click “OK” and open the Windows registry, as shown in the screenshot.

This code removes this error that is in the screenshot

Sudo apt install —reinstall Linux-headers-$(uname -r) virtualbox-dkms dkms

Step 14

Press “Start”

Step 15

Waiting for download

Step 16

We are waiting for “Starting the installation program”

We install Windows 11

Step 17

Choose the language, keyboard and time zone and move on

Step 18

Click on “Install now”

Step 19

Launch the installer

Step 20

Click “I don’t have a product key”

Step 21

Select the operating system and click next

Step 22

We agree and move on

Step 23

We press further

Step 24

We are waiting for the installation to complete

Step 25

We are waiting for the preparation

Step 26

One minute..)

Step 27

Windows is almost loaded

Step 28

We choose a country

We configure Windows 11

Step 29

Select the keyboard

Step 30

We are waiting

Step 31

We create an account

Step 32

This is our temporary e-mail, which we will enter. You can enter your own

Step 33

Enter email

Step 34

We invent a password

Step 35

We put the country “Ukraine”

Step 36

We copy the code that came to us in the mail

Step 37

A confirmation code will be sent to the mail, enter it

Step 38

Again, we are waiting

Step 39

Select “Set up as a new PC”

Step 40

We create a pin code

Step 41

Enter the pin code twice and click “OK”

Step 42

We leave the slider as shown in the screenshot and move on

Step 43

Click “Skip”

Step 44

We repeat the previous action

Step 45

Click “Not now”

Step 46

Click “Reject the purchase of Microsoft 365”

Step 47

Again, click “Reject”

Step 48

We are waiting

Step 49

Congratulations, everything worked out for you