Installing Metasploitable 2 on M1/2 Mac

[striderno9]

Has anyone been able to successfully install metasploitable 2 on their M1/2 Mac? I can install it to VMware Fusion but when I run it I'm seeing an error message "Start PXE over ipv4" and no amount of changing of boot order fixes the issue. Any ideas? 

[RDPetruska]

Is there a version built for ARM processors?

[Technogeezer]

It appears that metasploitable is x86_64 only, with no plans to make an ARM version. Which means it won't run under Fusion on M1/M2 Macs. It might run under Intel CPU emulation using UTM (QEMU) on Apple Silicon. 

See https://github.com/rapid7/metasploitable3/issues/510

[jainammm]

You can follow this video: Link

[Technogeezer]

This confirms what I thought when I posted  - the way to get it running is to use UTM so that the Intel operating system used by the metasploit 2 VM can run on Apple Silicon. Performance won't be what you'd expect from a native version because complete Intel chip emulation on ARM is slow.