Kali Linux Virtual Machine - HyperV vs VirtualBox vs Proxmox - VM Networks

Installing Kali inside a VM is easy - where things become interesting is when we want to chose the right solution and the right VM network setup for tools such as wireshark or arpspoof. With the virtual network adapters you don't have direct access to the network hardware. We will have a look at network options with Virtualbox, Hyper-V and Proxmox. I have also compiled a little decision matrix that might help you chose the right solution. We will also have a short look at options how we can map hardware (USB, PCI...) to a virtual machine with the three solutions. #kalilinux #virtualbox #hyperv #proxmox HyperV vs VirtualBox vs Proxmox & VM Networks

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Chapters:

0:00 Setting the Scene

1:12 Which VM platform to use ?
2:53 How about VMWare ESXi?
3:25 Why Hyper-V?
4:15 Why Proxmox?
4:45 Installation steps - from ISO
5:35 Importing an OVA file
6:15 Network types

9:20 Hardware mapping
11:35 Accessing the GUI
13:20 Preview WSL2, Docker and Proxmox
13:58 Snapshots / Checkpoints

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[OneMarcFifty]

This is the second Kali video in a series of 5 this week - enjoy ;-)

[Anonymouzee]

Marc... you're the man... ;-)
that USB/spice remote mapping is a bonus... ;-))
I was just probing proxmox as a container aternative to Docker/Portainer or Podman... ;-)))

[ChAnTi]

I am taking some days of to work through our Kali Linux. Worked with a lot before proxmos and loved it. Never used the headless and lxc setup but will go for it now.

[gael_le_coq]

Really well explained. Thanks for all

[jrrtolkin]

Hi Mark, like always thorough and informative. Any chance you might discuss in details the 4 networking options for ProxMox you mentioned here?

[dktol]

I'm a bit confused by the N in parenthesis for headless and containers. Virtualbox appears to have headless support (for quite some time) using VBoxManage or VBoxHeadless. Libvirt/virsh/virt-manager provides management support for LXC containers, if you install the some additional packages from the distro repos. In a recent Ubuntu Mate 22.04 install, I see two network interfaces for libvirt - virbr0 for qemu/kvm VM's, and lxcbr0 for (presumably) LXC containers.

[GeorgeValkov]

Mark, it would be nice to see some benchmark comparison between Hyper-V, Proxmox and Virtual Box: disk, network, CPU and GPU.
My experience from a few years ago was that Virtual Box and especially VMware performed very poorly when accessing disk and network. Use the host as a reference.

[theblowupdollsmusic]

Great video. But QEMU runs on mac os with a front end called UTM and command line.

[bennguyen]

I have a usb printer that only works under windows XP.. could I create an XP virtual machine (preferably VirtualBox) that can talk directly to the printer, even though the host Windows 10 machine will show it as not having a driver error for it?

[hans-peterschmid]

Marc, is it not the OSI-Layer 2 instead the ISO-Layer 2 ?

[avimalka]

It's nice and all, but VMs are already out of fashion, containers is the future, VMs are simply waste of resources.