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BackTrack 4 in VirtualBox

3 February 2010 773 views 10 Comments

Have you wondered how to get BackTrack 4 running in the easiest way possible? Well you can stop now. No need to burn a disk or install it on your computer just to check it out, you can run it in a virtual machine right from your desktop. Many of you have heard of VMware and looked away because of all the five dolla sucky suckys it would take to afford it. Fortunately there exists a free alternative that is just as good, Sun’s VirtualBox (available for Linux, Mac, Windows) . In this video, I will show you how to get BackTrack 4 up and running in it.. oh and the process is the same for any other OS you wish to run as well.


One more thing… what is a Virtual Machine? Well without giving you a brainfart, it is simply a software that uses your host operating system’s resources (cpu,ram,hard drive) to launch and run another operating system within it. For a more technical explanation check out this Wikipedia article…here….just kidding, I’m going to keep you on this site as long as possible. Muaha, find it yourself! So here’s the video:


Get VirtualBox
Get BackTrack 4

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10 Comments »

  • David (author) said:

    Oh forgot to mention, let me know how you like the video.. how I should improve the way I create them… and if I should make them more often. :-)

  • Daddy said:

    Bro ur doing just great :) found so many blogs etc. but You are constantly working on it A++ from me :) grets from Bosnia ( Europe ) ;D

  • David (author) said:

    Thanks :-) , means a lot.

  • deck said:

    hi am tryn to get bt4 to work on vbox but im not getin the cdrom option or the iso option.im usen win 7 thanks.

  • David (author) said:

    a little bit different in the newest version. click on storage, then under the IDE controller, select the CD which should say empty, click on the folder and add the iso. that should fix your problem.

  • deck said:

    thanks for the reply dave ill try tat n let ya know.

  • deck said:

    nope still cant find the bt4 image.when i dload the bt4 it goes into down loads and thats the 1 folder that doest show up.Im new t dis so if u cud walk me threw step by step .
    thanks davey

  • David (author) said:

    make sure you are looking into the right downloads folder. if its in there then it’ll be in there. there are 2 downloads folders.. one under documents and one under your username.

  • jubs said:

    Hey David i just seen this tutorial
    i have BT4 installed on a VM already but i get a terminal instead of the GUI, please help.

  • David (author) said:

    once you get the terminal type in startx to start the gui

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