Kali Linux Vagrant

Vagrantfile and Ansible Playbook for a fresh and up-to-date Kali Linux VM running in VirtualBox.

Prerequisites

• VirtualBox installed
• VirtualBox Extensionpack installed
• Vagrant installed

Usage

Run vagrant up for the initial build of the VM. Download of image and update of all packages can take quite a bit of time.

After initial build of the VM, shutdown the VM with vagrant halt and restart it again to make sure, every setting is in place.

Hints

• If you need more packages that are not part of the default kali image, add them in the Ansible playbook.
• I set language and keyboard setting of the VM to de_DE. Change this in the playbook if needed.
• Default user of the kalilinux/rolling image is vagrant/vagrant and not kali/kali.
• My host system was a Windows 10 x64

Issues

• Package update takes a lot of time on first run of playbook.
• I commented out the cpuexecutioncap setting in the Vagrantfile, because VirtualBox complains about it.
• I commented out the usbfilter setting in the Vagrantfile, because it results in duplicated USB devices, whenever the VM is started with Vagrant.

Changes

Last changes on 11.04.2020

Appendix

Just a collection of links, snippest and hints.

Links

Here some links where i got ideas and hints from:

• https://www.kali.org/news/announcing-kali-for-vagrant/
• https://pablo.tools/posts/computers/custom-kali-box/
• https://github.com/pinpox/kali-i3
• https://computingforgeeks.com/how-to-run-kali-linux-rolling-release-with-vagrant-on-virtualbox/
• https://www.terasq.com/2019/03/building-kali-with-vagrant-ansible-p1/
• https://github.com/M507/Kali-TX
• http://mohad.red/Kali-Linux-is-Missing-Many-tools/

Vagrant

Please read the comments in the Vagrantfile as well as documentation on vagrantup.com for more information on using Vagrant.

To check a Vagrantfile before using it:

vagrant validate

First time run:

vagrant up

To ssh into the running VM:

vagrant ssh

To stop and to destroy the running VM:

vagrant halt
vagrant destroy

To reload the Vagrantfile and to re-run the provisioner:

vagrant reload
vagrant provision
vagrant up --provision

VirtualBox Guest Additions

vagrant plugin install vagrant-vbguest

• https://www.serverlab.ca/tutorials/virtualization/how-to-auto-upgrade-virtualbox-guest-additions-with-vagrant/
• https://shanemcd.org/2018/12/15/installing-virtualbox-guest-additions-in-a-debian-vagrant-box-on-windows-10/
• https://subscription.packtpub.com/book/virtualization_and_cloud/9781786464910/1/ch01lvl1sec12/enabling-virtualbox-guest-additions-in-vagrant

USB Devices in VirtualBox

• https://sonnguyen.ws/connect-usb-from-virtual-machine-using-vagrant-and-virtualbox/
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38956127/usb-device-is-not-visible-inside-vagrant
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22503168/vagrant-usbfilter-make-the-guest-machine-entered-an-invalid-state

List all USB devices.

cd C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox
VBoxManage.exe list usbhost
Host USB Devices:

UUID:               dab09972-6ca3-43f3-ac28-6242a070d7cb
VendorId:           0x0bda (0BDA)
ProductId:          0x8812 (8812)
Revision:           0.0 (0000)
Port:               1
USB version/speed:  2/High
Manufacturer:       Realtek
Product:            802.11n NIC
SerialNumber:       123456
Address:            {4d36e972-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318}\0015
Current State:      Busy

USB Filters in Vagrant/VirtualBox

vb.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--usb", "on"]
vb.customize ['usbfilter', 'add', '0', '--target', :id, '--name', 'ESP', '--vendorid', '0x1a86', '--productid', '0x7523']

# Enable USB Controller on VirtualBox
config.vm.provider "virtualbox" do |vb|
  vb.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--usb", "on"]
  vb.customize ["modifyvm", :id, "--usbehci", "on"]
end

# Implement determined configuration attributes
config.vm.provider "virtualbox" do |vb|
  vb.customize ["usbfilter", "add", "0",
      "--target", :id,
      "--name", "Any Cruzer Glide",
      "--product", "Cruzer Glide"]
end

Issue: Duplicate USB Devices with Vagrant

• hashicorp/vagrant#5774
• https://github.com/hypriot/flash/blob/master/Vagrantfile

Users in Ansible

List all users in running VM:

cat /etc/passwd

• https://www.kali.org/docs/introduction/default-credentials/
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47873671/becoming-non-root-user-in-ansible-fails
• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19292899/creating-a-new-user-and-password-with-ansible

Locale setting with Ansible

cat /etc/default/keyboard
localectl status

• https://serverfault.com/questions/959026/how-do-i-generate-and-set-the-locale-using-ansible