VM Configuration (VMWare Pro17)

1.1.- Click on Create a New Virtual Machine

1.2.- Once the wizard is displayed click on Typical and click next

1.3.- Select “I will install the Operating System Later” and click next

1.4.- Select Linux and Debian 12.X 64-bit Version and click next

1. 5.- Name our VM and select the path where the VM will be saved, in this case we have two options:

• The first one is the default VMWare location, in this case we just click next.
• The second one is to select a different location, for this we click on browse, an explorer window will open and we will select the location, once this process is finished we will return to the wizard and click on next.

1.6.- We assign the hard disk space in my case it is 200GB and click next

1.7.- Now it will show us the specifications of our virtual machine and we click on finish.

1.8.- Click on browse, select the location of the ISO file, once the assignment of the location is done and we return to the wizard click on next

1.9.- Click OK

1.10.- Start VM click “Power on this virtual machine”

1.11.- Click Try/Install

1.12.- Start VM Parrot

1.13.- Once it finishes starting Parrot OS will show us the desktop

1.14.- Initially we do not provide the required memory for its installation so we have to expand the Ram memory, the minimum required is 4GB.

1.15.- In my case I will allocate 9GB, this is also due to the hardware of the host system which has good availability and performance.

1.16.- Select the Language and click next

1.17.- Select Region and Time Zone

1.18.- Select the Keyboard

1.19.- Select Erase Disk and click next

1.20.- Assign access credentials

1.21.- Click Install

1.22.- Confirm installation process click “Install now”

1.23.- Parrot OS installation will start at this moment.

1.24.- Once finished restart the Distro | click “Done”

1.25.- As we can see the startup menu has already changed from when we run Parrot live.

1.26.- Parrot Login, Type password and press Enter

1.27.- Run neofetch in the terminal to display Parrot’s details such as kernel, processor and other data

Remember that when you finish the installation of any Linux Distro it is important to update it and for this we run the following commands

sudo apt install
sudo apt -y upgrade

For this Parrot run mode we will download the VirtualBox version, which is already preconfigured, so we just need to import it in VirtualBox as shown in the following steps

2.1.- Download ova File “Parrot-security-6.0_amd64.ova”

2.2.- Click on Import

2.3.- Selection .ova File

2.4.- Import Location .ova File

2.5.- All Settings for VM ParrotOS 6

2.6.- I Agree the Software License

2.7.- Importing VM

2.8.- Automatic Login

2.9.- Run neofetch command

2.10.- Update & Upgrade ParrotOS

sudo apt install
sudo apt -y upgrade