We have always made all our & .

Another positive outcome of this is that it allows us to generate weekly VMs now! These images are more up-to-date, meaning less packages need updates out of the box, but the only set of tests run are the automated ones. Our release images have an additional set of Quality Assurance (QA) smoke-tests run against them, with the knowledge of last-snapshot, meaning the packages are in a known state. You have a choice: Stable vs updates!

Let’s start with a quick introduction to the weekly VMs, then we’ll have a glimpse at the Kali-VM build script.

Weekly Kali VMs

You can find these Kali images in the . In order to use it you just need to . If you’re already a user of the VirtualBox image, we’d love to hear your feedback on this new image! Feel free to drop us a word on the you wish to be included

The build script is stable enough that we are using it in production, but its still early days. As a result, there is a roadmap of features we would like to add:

• ARM64 support


• Hyper-V support


• Hook support (allowing you to customize Kali’s settings, such as changing preferences or altering the wallpaper)


• Many more ideas!

If the above sounds great to you, we would love a hand adding it! We are gladly encouraging , great! Let us know as well =)

Now if you are wondering “Okay, this is pretty cool. How do I get started?” please take a look at the README. This will give you a basic idea of what requirements are needed, and how to get started. Then its just a case of looking at the help screen, and customizing the arguments to your needs!

Want some examples to get you going?

$ ./build.sh -v vmware

$ ./build.sh -v virtualbox -a i386 -D kde

$ ./build.sh -v virtualbox -b kali-last-snapshot -D gnome -S everything

$ ./build.sh -v qemu -D headless -S none -P nmap,sqlmap

Happy hacking