Preamble

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In my Previous Post about Daily Driving Kali without Daily Driving Kali, I explained how to use ssh and KVM to make a native shell like experience for your kali VM in linux. However, after immersing myself in the Linux community, I found a better solution: containerizing the Kali OS using distrobox so in this post i will explain how to set that up

Distrobox Installation & Setup

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I will explain how to do it as of March 24, 2025, but there may have been updates since then so check the official docs you done ? ok, let’s begin

run this command to install it on your fedora machine

sudo dnf install distrobox

then let’s setup the distrobox

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running this command will create a distrobox with the kali image

distrobox create -i kali-rolling:latest -n kali

if you are using an nvidia GPU and want to access it’s power use this command instead

distrobox create -i kali-rolling:latest -n kali --nvidia

and also after i did some research it appears you can skip the last step of installing use init-hooks but i haven’t tested it yet but in theory it should work

distrobox create -i kali-rolling:latest -n kali --init-hooks "apt update && apt -y install kali-linux-headless"

Enter thine Distrobox

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distrobox enter kali

Install the Kali Packages

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This command will update your repositories and install the latest headless metapackage

sudo apt update && sudo apt -y install kali-linux-headless

Congrats

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Now you have a completely Headless kali install, with an added bonus where you can Interact with whatever GUI tool u want directly from your host OS