Kali-Live Build-Scripts

live-build configuration for Kali ISO images.

These are the same build-scripts that the Kali team uses to generate the official Kali Linux base images, found here: kali.org/get-kali/.

Build your Kali Linux image today!

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These images can be used to live boot into Kali, from such a USB/CD/DVD/sdCard, as well offers a basic installation. For more customization during setup, see kali-installer.

• kali-installer uses Simple-CDD (which is a wrapper for debian-cd)
• kali-live uses live-build

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Have a look at Live Build a Custom Kali ISO for explanations on how to use this repository.

There are also other code examples of live-build, as well as code examples for pre-seed to automate/unattended installation.

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Help

$ ./build.sh --help
Usage: ./build.sh [<option>...]

  --distribution <arg>
  --proposed-updates
  --arch <arg>
  --verbose
  --debug
  --variant <arg>
  --version <arg>
  --subdir <arg>
  --get-image-path
  --no-clean
  --clean
  --help

More information: https://www.kali.org/docs/development/live-build-a-custom-kali-iso/
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Usage Examples

Both images types, using the latest packages:

$ ./build.sh
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Manually define which Kali mirror to pull from, as well as be more detailed in output:

$ echo "http://kali.download/kali" > .mirror
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$ ./build.sh --verbose
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Build a different Live image version (GNOME and KDE Plasma):

$ ./build.sh \
  --debug \
  --variant gnome
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$ ./build.sh \
  --debug \
  --variant kde
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Guida Laga

Creazione ISO

1. Aggiungi un nuovo disco rigido virtuale di almeno 35/40 GB (chiamato, ad esempio, kali_ISS.qcow2). Usando virt-manager o direttamente qemu-system-x86_64.

2. Identifica il nuovo disco appena aggiunto (solitamente /dev/sdb o /dev/vdb).

sudo fdisk -l

3. Una volta individuato (supponiamo sia /dev/sda), formattalo (serve solo se non è appena creato).

sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda

4. Monta il disco e crea lo spazio di lavoro.

sudo mkdir -p /mnt/build_workspace

sudo mount /dev/sda /mnt/build_workspace

sudo chown -R kali:kali /mnt/build_workspace

5. Sposta il progetto e compila.

mv ~/Kali_ISS /mnt/build_workspace/

cd /mnt/build_workspace/Kali_ISS

sudo ./build.sh --clean

sudo ./build.sh --verbose

Alla fine si ottiene l'ISO nella cartella /mnt/build_workspace/Kali_ISS.

Spostare ISO

Per spostare l'ISO sull'host, si può accedere direttamente al filesystem della VM:

1. Spegni la VM Kali che monta il disco virtuale.

2. Sull'Host, carica il modulo NBD (Network Block Device) e collega il disco virtuale:

sudo modprobe nbd max_part=8

sudo qemu-nbd --connect=/dev/nbd0 /percorso/al/tuo/disco.qcow2

3. Monta la partizione della VM e copia il file:

sudo mount /dev/nbd0p1 /mnt

cp /mnt/build_workspace/Kali_ISS/image/*.iso ~/

4. Smonta il disco e scollega NBD:

sudo umount /mnt

sudo qemu-nbd --disconnect /dev/nbd0