Offensive Security has announced its implementation of a file system snapshot in Kali Linux, a feature designed to add VM-like snapshotting to bare-metal installs.

FireEye debuts Windows Commando VM as Kali Linux rival The toolkit is aimed at filling a gap in the Windows-based penetration testing space.

As such, it is frequently installed as a virtual machine on a laptop, using VMWare or VirtualBox on a Windows, Mac, or even Linux host. Kali also installs nicely as a Qubes VM.