Instead of doing a dual boot scenario with my Desktop PC using Windows and Linux I'm just going to install a hypervisor and use a virtual machine to use Linux. This allows me to test drive certain Linux
distros without having to install it onto my hard drive. What's a hypervisor you ask? A hypervisor is software that creates and manages different virtual machines.

So, Virtual Box would be the hypervisor we will install on our Windows 10 machine and use to "virtually" install a Linux OS.

Here is the Link for Virtual Box: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

Step 1 - Installing oracle VM Virtual box

Step 2 -Download an image file

Linux distributions or Linux distros have tons of different kinds of operating systems i.e (Ubuntu, Kali, Xubuntu), an image file has the extension .iso and contains large amounts of data containing all the information for that specific OS. Chose a file that contains .iso at the end. Start by going to https://www.linux.org/ and downloading the image file of your choice.

Step 3-Set up a virtual machine with virtual box

Notes:

When I finished downloading the virtual machine, Kali did not want to boot, it simply gave me a black screen and a flashing cursor. To fix this I had to do a little research online but I finally got it. I started by making sure Virtualization was enabled on my Windows machine, then I reinstalled kali linux from the .iso file. Then I went into the command prompt using administrator privileges and entered the following: bcdedit /set hypervisorlaunchtype off Reboot your computer and try to boot Kali from the hypervisor. This is a common issue with lots of help online. Windows has its own hypervisor configuration that is enabled at bootup, but Virtual Box is in conflict with this so it is best to turn it off.