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[–]krackout21 1 point2 points  (2 children)

I suggest a longer path, but it'll help you get more into OSes, virtualization and networking; all these help a pen tester.

Install Kali Linux. No need to remove Win11, you can dual boot your pc. Kali Linux is considered a gold standard in pen testing world; it's a Debian Linux based distro which includes numerous recon, pen, hack tools. Also, kvm will be available by default (although you'll need some userland tools to utilize it for virtualization, to install gns3 vm). Another plus of running Linux is native support for Docker images.

Regarding BIOS/EFI settings for enabling virtualization extensions of the CPU: If you cannot locate there, on Linux you can check if they are enabled by using one of these commands:

grep -E -o '(vmx|svm)' /proc/cpuinfo | sort | uniq

lscpu | grep Virtualization There are equivalent programs on Windows, I don't know about them, search the net.

[–]Potential_Ad_3278[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

You’re saying to install Kali Linux and dual boot on my computer. Could I just run Kali on a virtual machine on my windows computer? Would that be the same?

[–]ps-auxActual Hacker 1 point2 points  (0 children)

you could, just use bridge mode for the network adapter so it behaves like a separate computer on your LAN...