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What is Kali Linux LXC/LXD?

The best way to run Kali Linux within other Linux distributions and provide isolated environments for testing or development tasks without the overhead of virtual machines is with Kali Linux containers. LXC/LXD is favored for whole systems, while Docker is preferred for apps.

When building or testing software, capabilities like snapshots and freezing are made available via Linux containers. The “images:” image server in LXD or the “lxc-download” template in LXC can both be used to launch Kali images, which are readily available on the image server for both LXC and LXD.

LXC is a userspace interface for the confinement features of the Linux kernel. It enables Linux users to quickly create and manage system or application containers with a strong API and straightforward tools.

LXD is a system container manager of the future. Employing Linux containers instead of virtual machines, it provides a user experience similar to virtual machines. It is image-based, with ready-made images for many different Linux distributions, and is based on a very robust yet remarkably straightforward REST API.

Installation Steps

LXD is the more practical of the two, but it’s only accessible through snap packages in Ubuntu or other distributions (like Kali). LXC is more widely available and favored in Kali because it is natively supported and does not require snapd to be operating.

Let’s look into the steps to set up Kali Linux LXD container on the Ubuntu host.

• Firstly, set up LXD.
• Now launch the Kali container.
• Then inside the container, set up additional packages.
• Create a non-root user.
• Finally, all we’ve to do is log in.

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Conclusion

To conclude, our Support team explains what is Kali Linux LXC/LXD and how to install it on the Ubuntu host.