All entries below are maintained by the Kali team itself. Download links and technical documentation are on the official site — we link, we don't host.
The standard way to run Kali on a PC or laptop: a full installer, or a "live" image that boots from USB without installing anything. Choice of desktop environments (Xfce default, GNOME, KDE).
get-kali ↗Ready-made images for VMware, VirtualBox, Hyper-V and QEMU — the most popular way to try Kali safely inside your existing computer.
virtual machines ↗The mobile edition for Android devices, in three levels: a rootless app install, a rooted version, and full images with custom kernels for supported phones.
NetHunter ↗Official images for Raspberry Pi and a long list of other ARM boards — a favourite for small, low-power lab machines.
ARM images ↗Kali installs from the Microsoft Store and runs inside Windows. Win-KeX adds a full graphical desktop experience on top of WSL.
WSL docs ↗Official listings in the AWS and Azure marketplaces let you start a Kali machine in the cloud in minutes, paying only for the compute.
cloud images ↗Minimal official container images — useful when you want Kali's package repositories inside an existing system rather than a separate OS.
container docs ↗Introduced in 2023: the defensive counterpart to the classic ("red") Kali, bundling tools for protecting, monitoring and responding — the same project, applied to defence.
announcement ↗A special offline image containing the complete tool catalogue — large, but self-sufficient where internet access is limited.
images ↗