Hack the box + Parrot OS setup using Fusion 13 Personal use

[Pak Chu]

Hi all,

I am running into an issue regarding mounting Parrot OS

Parrot OS:

Parrot-htb-6.1_+amd64.iso 

Mac Studio:

64 memory 

Sonoma 14.5

Apple M1 Ultra

I am following the installation in the hack the box module - module/87/section/883 

using Linux 10.x 64-bit Arm, but I keep getting this error. I made sure CD/DVD drive is configured to use Parrot-htb-6.1_+amd64.iso  and set the startup disk to use CD/DVD.

Any help would be appreciated.

[Technogeezer]

What you've downloaded (which appears to be a ParrotOS Live ISO) won't work under Fusion. It'a an ISO for Intel/AMD x86_64 CPUs. Fusion doesn't emulate Intel CPUs.

You will need to see if ParrotOS is available as an ARM64 architecture ISO -- the HTB (Hack The Box) Live ISO doesn't appear to have an ARM64 download from what I can see. They do have virtual editions for ARM64, but those are built as UTM virtual machines. You'd need to download and install UTM from https://mac.getutm.app (it's free) and use it to run those Parrot packaged virtual machines instead of Fusion. It would be a science project to try and convert a UTM virtual machines to a Fusion virtual machine -- it's just simpler to download UTM.

Other other thoughts:

• Run that AMD ISO under UTM. You will need to configure the UTM VM to Emulate, not Virtualize. 
• Download a Debian 12 "Bookworm" arm64 ISO and install that in a Fusion VM -- with the MATE desktop environment only. Then use Parrot's Debian Conversion Script found on the Parrot web site to convert the Debian VM into a ParrotOS VM. (I've been able to do this successfully using the instructions in the conversion script).
• Investigate Kali Linux - it too is designed as a penetration testing toolbox and has native ARM64 bootable live media/installation media.

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- Paul (technogeezer)
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