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Historically, Metasploitable 3 didn't come as a simple, pre-built OVA file like other VMs. Because of licensing restrictions (particularly with Windows Server), users were required to build the VM themselves using and Vagrant .

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Ensure VirtualBox and Vagrant are installed.

Metasploitable 3 differs from its predecessor because Rapid7 does not provide a direct, official .ova download for it. Instead, it is designed to be built locally using and Packer to comply with Microsoft’s licensing for the Windows version.

: You can download pre-configured Vagrant boxes directly from the Rapid7 Vagrant Cloud page. Once Vagrant is installed, you can initialize it with the command vagrant init rapid7/metasploitable3-win2k8 or rapid7/metasploitable3-ub1404 .