---
id: 8
title: "Kali Vagrant Rebuilt: Out With Packer, In With DebOS"
source_domain: kali.org
source_url: "https://www.kali.org/blog/kali-vagrant-rebuilt/"
published_at: "2025-08-21T00:00:00Z"
tags: ["virtualization", "kali-linux", "linux-distribution", "vagrant", "debos", "build-automation"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/8"
lang: en
---

# Kali Vagrant Rebuilt: Out With Packer, In With DebOS

## Summary

Kali rebuilt its Vagrant base boxes with DebOS instead of Packer, unifying all VM image builds on one Linux pipeline; Vagrant 2.4.7+ is now required for Hyper-V users on Kali 2025.2+.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** kali.org
- **Published:** 2025-08-21T00:00:00Z
- **Original:** https://www.kali.org/blog/kali-vagrant-rebuilt/
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/8