How To Run Backtrack On Windows Using Virtualbox

         In this post I am going to tell you how to install Virtual Box on Windows and Mac and use 2 operating systems simultaneously.If you want to use MAC,Backtrack,etc on your Windows operating system you can use many different kinds of softwares. Virtual Box is one of those softwares using which you can use Windows,Backtrack on your Mac operating system without even restarting your system and vicecversa. We taking here example as Backtrack on windows means How to Install Backtrack on your running windows OS.

Downloading Virtual Box

The very first thing you need to do download Virtual Box. Virtual Box is available for free of cost. If you are using Mac Operating system and want to use windows on Mac, you need to download “OS X Hosts” DMG file for that purpose. Download virtualbox from following links as per your requirements.

• VirtualBox 4.3.8 for Windows hosts  x86/amd64
• VirtualBox 4.3.8 for OS X hosts  x86/amd64
• VirtualBox 4.3.8 for Linux hosts
• VirtualBox 4.3.8 for Solaris hosts  x86/amd64

Downloading  BackTrack 5 R3: Free Download

Backtrack is discontinued for further updates. we mirrored some links for our users so download backtrack according to your need.  For torrents backtrack 5 links, ftp links to download with idm go to iso.linuxquestions.org/backtrack/backtrack-5-r3

• BackTrack 5 R3 (ISO) KDE 64-bit (Softpedia US Mirror)
• BackTrack 5 R3 (ISO) KDE 32-bit (Softpedia US Mirror)

How to Install VirtualBox

After you have downloaded Virtual Box, you need to install it. Use Virtual Box installer to install Virtual Box on your computer. Open the virtual Box installer. Mount the DMG image and follow the on screen instructions and install Virtual box on your PC.

How to Setup VirtualBox: (VirtualBox Installation Guide)

Once you have installed Virtual Box, you need to create Virtual Box machine so that you can use Windows on it. Follow the steps below to install Virtual Box Machine on your PC. In this tutorial we will learn how to run backtrack on windows?.

• Open virtual Box, you will see Toolbar and “New” present in it. Clicking on it will launch Wizard for creating a New Virtual Machine.

• Name the Virtual Machine. You can name it “Backtrack” or whatever you like. It is just a label.

• You will see two options below for selecting the operating system and the version. Select as per the version you are installing. For backtrack select other linux.
• Now configure the hard disk, Select the default settings and click on Continue. For exa. I have 3 GB RAM, I am allocating 1Gb of RAM for virtualbox i.e. virtual memory. this memory will be restored to original 6 GB after shutdown of this program.

• The recommended size is 8 GB  which is enough for installing backtrack. Click Continue. Now Click on Create a virtual hard drive.

• Select the default VDI (Virtual Disk Image) and Hit next.

• Now select ‘Dynamically allocated’  option and click on next.

• Now select the size of virtual drive dont get confused in the previous step you selected RAM. Now you are selecting hard disk space. we called it as virtual drive. Select space as per your need. We have taken 2.5 gb.

• Now click on Create. That’s you have create your Virtual Box drive. After that following windows will appear.

Adding Backtrack ISO To Virtual Box

• Now you have to add ISO of backtrack OS. For that click on setting button. Next thing is click on
• storage button==>Empty==>click on that NO3 red circled icon.

• Now just browse your ISO file from your hardisk. filename on my harddrive is BT5.iso.  Now click on OK button.

• after hitting on OK button. Now everything is set. Let start virtualbox with backtrack OS.

Some Points To Remember:

Point to be Remember 1 : When you  run your Backtrack DVD , shortly after system will presented the menu list . you need to be carefully review this list , its contains several different options .

• If you have some trouble getting Backtrack to boot , then choose  Backtrack Debug - Safe Mode 
• If you want to run the system memory test then select Backtrack Memtest - Run memtest
• If you just wanna start Backtrack Live then Choose Backtrack Text - Default Boot Text Mode

Point To Be Remember  2 : Once system is loaded you will be presented with a log-in

prompt. 

                                   You have to enter the username as a root and Password as a toor

Point to Remember 3 : Once you logged into the system it shows root@bt : ~#(shown below )

Here you have to enter startx command . Once enter key is pressed system will begin to load . Once it completely loaded , you will see the desktop 

Point to Remember 4 : Commands used on Backtrack Linux .

• konsole : This command is used to start the terminal .

• ifconfig  : This command is used to view system ip address.

• ifconfig -a : This will shows the interface available like " eth0 " and " lo " .Here eth0 is your " ethernet card" and " lo " is  a loop-back adapter .

• ifconfig eth0 up : This command is used to turn on the network card.

           Example : ifconfig eth0 up 192.168.127.131

• poweroff or init 0  : This command is used to shutdown the Backtrack .

• reboot : This command is used to reboot Backtrack .

These are some points which should remember while using Backtrack Linux OR any other Linux .

Official Site: www.backtrack-linux.org

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