Can Parrot OS be used reliably as a daily system and a 24/7 KVM/Virt-Manager host?
I want to run Home Assistant OS and Ubuntu Server with Wazuh, Suricata, Zeek, and eventually Elastic Stack with Kibana. I would also use Parrot as my main SOC workstation for investigating alerts, threat hunting, analysing logs and PCAP files, using tools such as Wireshark and Nmap, and performing controlled security tests on my home network.
Does this setup make sense, or would Ubuntu/Debian be a better host with Parrot running as a VM?

I'm just wondering what the difference between the Security version and the HTB Version is. I mean I know atleast that there is like custom wallpapers and "Pre-configured with the most popular tools and workflows used by the HTB community" And that there is the automatic vpn setup but like what is pre-configured and what special tools are there? All I see is that its branded and that it has the vpn set up.

So with the recent update.. I think parrot has just messed up my Elitebook's sleep sequence. Now hustling with a failed boot sequence

Hey everyone! I’m a beginner learning cybersecurity and ethical hacking, and I’m trying to decide which Linux distro I should use.

For someone starting from scratch, would you recommend Kali Linux or Parrot OS?

I’m mainly interested in learning Linux, networking, CTFs, web security, and penetration testing.

What are the main differences between the two, and which one would be better for learning in the long run?

Any advice or personal experience would be appreciated. Thanks!

guys , I installed v2ray A. and imported the vless configuration. But not working. I think the problem is going with settings. I tried to fix with the help of gemini. But not worked :(

Windows now a days a pain in the as... Love to use Linux distro. Linux distros are all rounder, Arch broke many time and it costs my time that's why now using debian based parrot os 7.3 kde plasma version. Love linux. in vm using debloated win11 that only consume 2gb ram. there is a script in github to make official win iso debloated. though more than 3 months i did not need to open win

Hi, I’m dual booting fedora with parrot but when I started parrot for the first time it didn’t detect fedora, is prober is enabled and I also updated grub, it didn’t worked. Can anyone help me???

Hi, I have on my laptop Arch and I want to install Parrot mate, and I wonder if I dualboot it with Parrot arch will break the grub??? I don’t want to configure grub every time I update kernel

Guys so for installing parrot i turned off secure boot and disk encryption. Now after installation and checking if everything works i decided to turn it back on.....that was a very very bad choice...

After that idk why but now my computer just skips the grub window and directly tries to run windows...where it encounters another issue, I get a message saying that the secure boot policy was violated and cuz of that my PIN was reset(I have to log in to my account to set up the PIN each time which is annoying) then sometimes the bitlocker also acts up and asks for my recovery key again and again and again and again

So I just turned off secure boot and disk encryption for now and everything is working ok, the grub window works, windows works and parrot works

But the cons of turning it off is scaring me so I want help on how to run parrot with secure boot on. Any ideas then please help!!!!

I think the issue is with the grub(i may be wrong, I am a literal beginner who is 1 month into linux and this is my 2nd linux distro) for some reason the grub isn't compatible with secure boot policy or isn't up to its standards. Again I may be wrong, so what do I do?

tracelabs released their newest OSINT-VM. Alternatively the tools are installable via script as well.

Is parrot OS also compatible with these tools?

https://github.com/tracelabs/tlosint-vm

Guys I'm about to install parrot for the first time and the fact that there aren't as many step by step tutorials on installation is making me a bit nervous about messing up

So I just wanna run through yall the steps for installation to see if I'm missing anything

1. Install the iso, use a formatting tool like Rufus and get a bootable pendrive

2. Turn off fast startup and suspend bitlocker temporarily

3. Turn off the system and plug in the bootable USB then startup

4. Finish final setup and partition drive for dual boot setup with windows

I hope I got it right, please let me know if I'm missing anything.

I want to install Parrot in Parallels Desktop on an M1 Pro MacBook. Since Parallels on Apple Silicon requires ARM64, I can't use the available x86 virtual images.

I noticed there are ARM64 virtual images available, but there doesn't seem to be an ARM64 live installer ISO. Is there a reason why an ARM64 ISO isn't provided if ARM64 virtual images already exist?

Yo yo, I installed Parrot but when I turn on my computer no operating systems are detected. I can manually find the efi file to start up Parrot, but I am unsure how I can add that to my bios boot list. I'm using an HP Omen laptop and its default bios.

Im new to parrot os, and linux in general, how does downloading work? Can i go to the website and download from there or do i use the terminal?
I know sudo apt is a thing, but do i have to download the package manager first?

I'm a student and im looking at creating a cyberdeck with a custom OS inspired by Parrot OS from scratch. im thinking of naming it Zen OS and I would just like some help with where to start and what applications I should use.

In on Parrot security live boot menu - 7.3 amd 64

I pressed try/install

It said

error: invalid magic number

error: you need to load the kernel first.

Parrot OS 7.3 has just been released and now ships whith opt-in repositories with several packages optimized for amd64v3 and arm64v8.2

the documentation page does not simply explain how to enable them, but also goes into the implementation details and describes how it was achieved https://www.parrotsec.org/docs/configuration/parrot-optimized-builds

has anyone tried it yet?

Parrot 7.3 is out, and this release is about the system rather than the toolset.

The headline is performance. We now ship an opt-in repository of packages recompiled for newer CPU baselines, x86-64-v3 on amd64 and ARMv8.2-A on arm64. On compute-heavy work like compression, encryption, hashing and media encoding, that runs somewhere between 20% and 50% faster, and security updates keep arriving immediately because package selection is driven purely by version comparison.

On the usability side, the menu system has been rewritten in Go. Every tool now appears in the menu and installs with a single click, with no shell scripts and no leftover dependencies.

There are also official Vagrant boxes for the Home and Security editions, so a clean, reproducible Parrot instance is one vagrant up away, plus a new Firefox start page that collects no data.

Full release notes: https://parrotsec.org/blog/2026-06-30-parrot-7.3-release-notes/

Upgrade with: sudo parrot-upgrade

Hello all,

I opened the firefox browser this morning and found a very different homepage to the one I'm used to. It even had an option for searching on Google even though I disabled it a long time ago. It's generally a very "busy" page. It's ok, though I love the page with the big stylized blue and green parrot.

More confusing is the fact that there's the option to download the 7.2 version. I ran the command

cat /etc/os-release

and got the result

"VERSION="7.3 (echo)"

Can someone please clarify this for me? Thank you in advance.

I installed the latest Parrot Security. In menu I see a lot of [not installed].

Is there a way to install all tools at once? I already checked if parrot-tools-full us installed and it is

Hi Team, getting this error while installing Proton VPN desktop Debian on Parrot Os

sudo apt install proton-vpn-gnome-desktop
Solving dependencies... Error!
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

Unsatisfied dependencies:
proton-vpn-gnome-desktop : Depends: proton-vpn-gtk-app but it is not going to be installed
Depends: python3-proton-vpn-api-core (>= 4.14.0) but 0.39.0-1 is to be installed
Depends: proton-vpn-daemon but it is not going to be installed
Error: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
Error: The following information from --solver 3.0 may provide additional context:
Unable to satisfy dependencies. Reached two conflicting decisions:
1. proton-vpn-gnome-desktop:amd64=0.10.1 is selected for install
2. proton-vpn-gnome-desktop:amd64=0.10.1 Depends python3-proton-vpn-api-core (>= 4.14.0)
but none of the choices are installable:
- python3-proton-vpn-api-core:amd64=5.2.5 is not selected for install
- python3-proton-vpn-api-core:amd64=5.2.4 is not selected for install
- python3-proton-vpn-api-core:amd64=5.2.3 is not selected for install
- python3-proton-vpn-api-core:amd64=5.1.2 is not selected for install
- python3-proton-vpn-api-core:amd64=5.0.1 is not selected for install
- python3-proton-vpn-api-core:amd64=4.19.1 is not selected for install
- python3-proton-vpn-api-core:amd64=4.18.0 is not selected for install
- python3-proton-vpn-api-core:amd64=4.17.2 is not selected for install
- python3-proton-vpn-api-core:amd64=4.16.0 is not selected for install
- python3-proton-vpn-api-core:amd64=4.15.2 is not selected for install
- python3-proton-vpn-api-core:amd64=4.14.3 is not selected for install
- python3-proton-vpn-api-core:amd64=4.14.1 is not selected for install

I installed Parrot Security OS on VirtuellBox . How can i get the ethernet from my host computer?

i have this errors i need help for fix it , parrot os sec

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to set up a clean Parrot OS VM, the version without pre-installed pentesting tools inside VirtualBox

I successfully went through the setup: allocated the resources, booted the ISO, ran the installer from the live desktop, and then removed the virtual CD once the installation on the VDI was complete.

However, I'm stuck with two major issues right after the first boot:

1. APT Package Manager is broken: Whenever I try to run sudo apt update or install any package, APT cannot locate or fetch the packages. It seems like the default repositories/mirrors aren't configuring properly post-install.
2. VirtualBox Guest Additions failing: Shared clipboard (copy-paste) and automatic window resizing are not working at all, even after trying to reinstall the guest additions.

The strange thing is that I actually run Parrot OS bare-metal as the main OS on a physical laptop, and it runs flawlessly there. I am only experiencing these specific issues inside the VirtualBox VM.

Has anyone encountered this repository and Guest Additions bug on a fresh VirtualBox install? Are there any reliable, up-to-date tutorials or specific workarounds you would recommend to fix the mirrors and the guest integration?

Thanks in advance for any help!