- #INSTALL VMWARE TOOLS ON KALI LINUX INSTALL#
- #INSTALL VMWARE TOOLS ON KALI LINUX SOFTWARE#
- #INSTALL VMWARE TOOLS ON KALI LINUX ISO#
- #INSTALL VMWARE TOOLS ON KALI LINUX FREE#
- #INSTALL VMWARE TOOLS ON KALI LINUX WINDOWS#
What do we need to get started, well, that is easy First things first - Prerequisites
#INSTALL VMWARE TOOLS ON KALI LINUX WINDOWS#
And let's not have a discussion around Windows or not Windows ?
#INSTALL VMWARE TOOLS ON KALI LINUX INSTALL#
The only thing left to do is to restart your virtual machine.First of all, yes, this may not be your most popular way to use Kali Linux, but based on personal experience, WSL2 (Windows Subsystem for Linux Version 2) is actually a surprisingly good way of using Linux tools on Windows, without having to install a 3rd party Virtualization Tool like Virtual Box or VMware Workstation. Would you like to enable VMware automatic kernel modules? Ĭongratulations you now successfully installed VMware Tools on your virtual machine ? This feature can be enabled/disabled by re-running. VMware automatic kernel modules enables automatic building and installation of VMware kernel modules at boot that are not already present. The vmblock enables dragging or copying files between host and guest in a Fusion or Workstation virtual environment. The path “” is not a valid path to the 3.14-kalil-amd64 kernel headers. The path “/usr/bin/gcc” appears to be a valid path to the gcc binary. The VMware Host-Guest Filesystem allows for shared folders between the host OS and the guest OS in a Fusion or Workstation virtual environment. Do you want this program to invoke the command for you now? īefore running VMware Tools for the first time, you need to configure it by invoking the following command: “/usr/bin/”.
#INSTALL VMWARE TOOLS ON KALI LINUX SOFTWARE#
You can decide to remove this software from your system at any time by invoking the following command: “/usr/bin/”. The installation of VMware Tools 9.6.1 build-1378637 for Linux completed successfully. This program is going to create it, including needed parent directories. The path “/usr/share/doc/vmware-tools” does not exist currently. In which directory do you want to install the documentation files? This program is going to create it, including neede parent directories. The path “/usr/lib/vmware-tools” does not exist currently. In which directory do you want to install the library files? In which directory do you want to install the daemon files? What is the directory that contains the init scripts? What is the directory that contains the init directories (rc0.d/ to rc6.d) ? Now u see it’s asking In which directory do you want to install the binary files Īfter u entered this u should press Enter So now we need to execute the file u do this by entering. Now that u are in the vmware-tools-distrib folderĪ file in green named (Green means it’s executable) You do this by entering cd vmware-tools-distrib Now that u see the folder in your terminal listed we should enter it Type tar -xf VMwareTools-9.6.Īnd see the a folder vmware-tools-distib in blue (Blue indicates it’s a folder) Now that u see this file listed in your terminal
The file VMwareTools-9.6. in your terminal Now open up a terminal window like shown belowĪfter u clicked the icon u should see this Now that u are in the Home folder u should again right click and select PasteĪfter u clicked paste the file VMwareTools-9.6. should be in your Home folder like shown below Now that your file is copied u should move it to somewhere in you virtual machine
Now right click on the VMwareTools-9.6. and choose Copy
#INSTALL VMWARE TOOLS ON KALI LINUX ISO#
The VMware tools iso mounted on the virtual cdrom drive on the leftĪnd inside the file VMware Tools-9.6. Now this should have opened up the cdrom drive automatically once u clicked Install VMware tools Now since u recently installed Kali linux the iso is still mounted on the CD-Rom drive, so we need to eject it first before we can mount the VMware tools ISOĮject the Kali Linux ISO by clicking on Places in the top Navigation Bar and the click on Home Folder like shown belowĪnd click on the upward arrow (eject) like shown on the picture above.Ĭlick in the top left on Player -> Manage-> Install VMware Tools Login to the root account (you need root privileges to install vmware tools)Īfter u logged in u should be on your desktop
Start Kali Linux up via the VMware Player This can sometimes be a hard project for beginners. Then u should now install VMware Tools cause it comes with some nice additions to Kali Linux, it allows you to stretch the windows freely, copy files from the host OS to the guest (Kali) and from the guest to the host.īut in order for these features to work, you have to install VMware Tools.
#INSTALL VMWARE TOOLS ON KALI LINUX FREE#
If you managed to install Kali Linux inside of VMware Player, a free virtual machine manager program.