Personally, I would just use Virtual box or VMWare and run Kali as a VM and use an external USB WiFi adapter if I need the WiFi capability, then everything works, no problematic driver issues, and you can drag and drop files between the host and VM without issue and save files in the VM itself. You may well find that some hardware drivers for the Mac's devices are simply not available if you want to go this root.

If you want a bootable 'second drive' with Kali installed, then you will need to install a different bootloader to be able to choose between Mac OSX or Kali at boot, refind is usually the easiest to set up I’m not gonna bother you on how to proceed on this step, but start here: $ sudo dd if= > EFI > Kali > System > Library > CoreServices > boot.Macs use the APFS filesystem type, so in disk utility you can create another APFS volume on the 'disk' that you can then use how you wish, it will take the space you allocate from the free drive space available on the main storage of the Mac so if you just need storage space on the Mac that will do it, you can later format the space however you wish, even from a live Linux USB USB Live installationįirst of all, install Kali on a USB stick by following this tutorial. This tutorial was heavily inspired by this tutorial with proper fixes for Kali.

A target USB stick, SD card or an SSD external drive where you’re going to install Kali (16GB and USB 3.0 recommended).

Mac OS only recognizes HFS+ partitions along with some files needed for it. The problem when you perform a Kali installation on a USB stick is that Kali partitions the disk with the VFAT file system. This is not intended to perform a Live Kali installation with persistence. This tutorial is for everyone who wants a USB stick with a full Kali installation to use with your Mac(s).

By Flavio De Stefano How to install Kali on a USB stick with pure EFI boot on a Mac (and let’s throw in virtualization via USB on Virtualbox, too) Photo by Jessy Smith on Unsplash

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