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  • 1.  Installing Metasploitable 2 on M1/2 Mac

    Posted Apr 17, 2023 07:42 PM

    Has anyone been able to successfully install metasploitable 2 on their M1/2 Mac? I can install it to VMware Fusion but when I run it I'm seeing an error message "Start PXE over ipv4" and no amount of changing of boot order fixes the issue. Any ideas? 



  • 2.  RE: Installing Metasploitable 2 on M1/2 Mac

    Posted Apr 17, 2023 07:57 PM

    Is there a version built for ARM processors?



  • 3.  RE: Installing Metasploitable 2 on M1/2 Mac

    Posted Apr 17, 2023 08:38 PM

    It appears that metasploitable is x86_64 only, with no plans to make an ARM version. Which means it won't run under Fusion on M1/M2 Macs. It might run under Intel CPU emulation using UTM (QEMU) on Apple Silicon. 

    See https://github.com/rapid7/metasploitable3/issues/510



  • 4.  RE: Installing Metasploitable 2 on M1/2 Mac

    Posted Mar 29, 2024 07:05 PM

    You can follow this video: Link



  • 5.  RE: Installing Metasploitable 2 on M1/2 Mac

    Posted Mar 29, 2024 07:33 PM

    This confirms what I thought when I posted  - the way to get it running is to use UTM so that the Intel operating system used by the metasploit 2 VM can run on Apple Silicon. Performance won't be what you'd expect from a native version because complete Intel chip emulation on ARM is slow.