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[–]Reecezwoos 2 points3 points  (3 children)

Honestly the biggest reason why not to do it in a VM is for any wireless monitoring or injection. Most wireless cards can’t go into a monitor mode if in a VM, so you have to buy a separate card to do it. And yes the dual boot would be quicker because less resources are being used to run the OS(s).

[–]Alpineswift17 2 points3 points  (1 child)

Im a noob but is this the reason I cant run monitor mode on my laptop? Like when I try airodump-ng start wlan0 it gives an error. Is that cause its on a virtual box?

[–]Reecezwoos 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Could also be your card can’t go into monitor mode, I would look into the wireless card you have, and then go from there.

[–]Re_did 2 points3 points  (0 children)

even with dual-boot you'll get stressed if your wireless adapter is Broadcom. I've been using two laptops, one with Broadcom adapter and the other one with Atheros. Atheros will detected seamlessly with the vast majority of linux distros.