Why is Virtual Machine hackers thirst?

Mashaal Shahid
3 min readFeb 21, 2022

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How are you wholly secured in a Virtual Machine?

How could you be a normal & root user at the same time?

If you don’t know the basic definition of the virtual machine then read the below paragraph otherwise disregard it and dropdown.

Virtual Machine is cross-platform virtualization software that extends a user’s computer existence to run multiple x86 OS, including Windows, MAC OS, Linux, etc.

For the ordinary individual, Windows Operating System is ideal but for a root user, it’s obvious that Linux is utilized. Kali Linux is the key for people who have to work like normal individuals and also penetration testers or in another cyber security field.

If he could purchase 2 PCs or do the two deals with 1 PC?

What is your take? Indeed! Everybody here would pick 1 PC. For that, a virtual machine is utilized.

Tor Browser used to access Dark Web anonymously

The most effective way to utilize a Virtual Machine is by making the host working framework Windows. It tends to be any 7, 10 … and on. The VM with Kali Linux in the conveyance of Ubuntu is good for typical use but the best for moral hacking is Debian-based kali. You can download it from Kali. Yet additionally consider the PC’s specs to download as it requires capacity and is weighty. At the point when we get inside it, the Kali default tools are as a matter of course introduced which something extraordinary is. It’s free open-source programming under the terms of GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2.

So by this on the outside, I mean the host OS you are a normal user, and on the inside scene, it’s a rooted terminal. If you are accessing the Dark Web or want to use VPN then you can use it inside and it will not affect the host OS and its data.

Many of you would think about VPN working on VMs. For this first, you have to understand the VDI (virtual desktop infrastructure) concept. VDI is an innovation that uses virtual machines (VM) to give, manage and oversee virtual desktops. VDI hosts on a unified server and conveys them to end clients on demand. So by this, you don’t need VPN, it’s already a safe & secure platform but if someone wants to use a VPN he can.

For installing a virtual machine you should have at least 8GB of RAM.

For the gamers who think Virtual Box is good. So I say that it’s a bad idea. There would not be the 3D support that you want most and applications with plenty of resources will lag. Some short, less heavy games will be applicable, but heavy and a lot of resource-gaining games would not work.

Copying from the host and pasting it into the VM or copying from the VM and pasting it into the host OS may have crossed your mind. So yes you can do both types of copy-paste by CTRL + C/ V but for copying and pasting in Kali terminal the shortcut is CTRL + SHIFT + C/V.

Some examples of virtual machine software along with their companies;

1. Oracle VirtualBox — developed by Oracle Corporation

2. VMware Workstation — developed by VMware, Inc.

3. VMware Fusion — developed by VMware, Inc.

4. Parallels Desktop — developed by Parallels, Inc.

5. Microsoft Hyper-V — developed by Microsoft Corporation

6. KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) — developed by the Linux community

7. Xen — developed by the Linux community

8. Proxmox Virtual Environment — developed by Proxmox Server Solutions GmbH

9. QEMU (Quick Emulator) — developed by the QEMU team

10. Virtual PC — developed by Microsoft Corporation (discontinued)

THAT'S ALL!

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