Nearly all the material regarding Ethical Hacking includes Kali Linux as the implicit tool used on excercises and demonstrations. Now to start using Parrot Security instead of Kali. Why first create and install as a VirtualBox machine and then migrate? I don't get it? I bet that this guide works evenly well for Kali Linux, however Kali is actually available in Windows App Store and can be installed as a subsystem, natively, so no need to run that in a VM under Windows 10.

Follow Parrot Security installation guide.

DON'T start download and do number 1 as it requires a restart).

Download ISO from Parrot Project web page (start this first and do number 2 while it downloads.

Setup Virtual switch inside Hyper-V control Center, giving access to sharing the host machine Netcard.

Make sure to install Hyper-V by adding it as a windows feature.

However why do that when using Hyper-V turned out to be the most uncomplicated process I have yet to experience regarding virtual machines running Linux? Setting up and installing I did find a short guide which suggested to create the VM under VirtualBox and migrate that to Hyper-V afterwards. The rest of this is how I got it up and running despite that I could not find any good guides out there. For practicallities, for the best 64 bit experience and stability concerns I choose Hyper-V. I had a couple of options at hand: VirtualBox, QEMU or Hyper-V. Both me and my wife uses this machine and she is studying and preparing for an exam, so it is not a descision without concerns. It is full disk encrypted with veracrypt and my D partition seperately encrypted and the machine has no TPM or build-in parallel support for encryption in the CPU so it is a bit slow-ish, but I still decided to try and run the Parrot OS as a virtual machine. Now my primary labtop is also an elderly rig, but it does have more modern architecture: So now what? I have a couple of spare machines lying around, but besides an old MAC (also 32 bit) and a chromebook, then all of these are low performance, small form factors, ranging from ARM devices to intel mobile device CPU architecture - and all of them would require a fixed setup with external monitor, keyboard and mouse. 'Errors reading sector xyz' it said a couple of times. No success in installing - or even spinning up the live image - of this OS. I have an old 32 bit HP labtop, so it was almost too perfect that this distribution is still maintained in a 32 bit version. So I was searching for alternatives which brought me to the Parrot Project - specifically to the Parrot Security distribution. I will personally advise potential peoples to look into Parrot OS because of the many benefits it offers to consumers, learners, and the community as a whole. However as a pen tool - hence also a security tool - I have a the fact that Kali is a single user system and that single user is root. Choosing an operating system for penetration testing, as described in this Kali vs Parrot OS article, is solely dependent on personal preference, customization, and system specifications. Sure Kali is the #1 preffered and most widely used distribution for pentesting. As part of my self-study of ethical hacking I was looking for alternatives to Kali Linux.

Use parrot os