Kali Linux can now run in Apple containers on macOS systems
With Apple's new containerization technology, researchers and cybersecurity experts can now start Kali Linux in a virtualized container on macOS Sequoia.
Similar to Microsoft Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL2), Apple Silicon devices can now run separate Linux distributions in its virtualized environment according to a new containerization architecture that the company introduced at WWDC 2025.
Installing the container CLI with Homebrew and initializing Apple's container framework are the first steps for customers running macOS Sequoia with Apple Silicon:
The following command loads the container from the DockerHub container library and runs Kali Linux within a macOS virtual machine.
With a command like this, you may also mount a local directory inside the Kali virtual machine...