How-To: Run Kioptrix On VirtualBox

Kioptrix virtual machine (by Vulnhub) was designed to run using VMware. In this How-To we’ll learn how it can be run on VirtualBox instead.

Video

If you prefer to follow a video instead, please see my video tutorial.

Download

Download thevirtual machine (VM) from Vulnhub.
Vulnhub Download page

Extract

The downloaded .rar file is an archive containing multiple files which we need to extract. Depending on your Operating System and installed applications, extract the files into a folder and remember it’s path.

• Extract on Windows
• Extract on Linux OS
• Extract Using WinRAR

Here are the files after extraction:
Extracted files in folder

VirtualBox Configuration

• Open VirtualBox
  VirtualBox main screen

• On the top menu select Machine -> New

• Put in a name, choose path the machine files to be stored in (or leave unchanged), select Type: Linux and Version: Other Linux 32-bit.
  VirtualBox new machine screen

• Click Next

• Select the appropriate memory size for the machine (anything above 512M is sufficient)
  VirtualBox select memory capacity

• Click Next

• Choose Use an existing virtual hard disk file and click the folder icon to choose the path
  VirtualBox select memory capacity

• Click Add on the top menu, choose the path to the directory where the extracted files are and select the .vmdk file
  VirtualBox select hard disk

• Click Create to finish the process.
• Configure the correct Network Settings according to your needs (Out of this tutorial scope as it is a topic by itself)

Run

• Start the machine

• You’ll see a blue screen from Kudzu. Don’t press any key and wait for time run out
  VirtualBox blue screen

• Once you see the Kioptrix login: text, the machine is running

Kioptrix machine running