Installing vmware tools kali linux

Инструменты VMware в гостевой системе Kali (обновлённая инструкция для Kali Linux 1.1.0 и Kali Linux 2.0)

Если вы не захотите использовать наши предварительно созданные образы VMware, а решите создать вашу собственную установку VMware, то вам понадобиться нижеследующая инструкция для успешной установки инструментов VMware в вашу инсталяцию Kali. Вы можете воспользоваться opt для установки или open-vm-toolbox, или родных инструментов VMware.

Установка open-vm-tools

Это, пожалуй, самый простой способ получить функциональность инструментов VMware внутри гостевой машины Kali VMware.

Установка инструментов VMware в Kali

Последняя версия на эту дату vmware-tools компилируется на наше ядро, хотя и с несколькими предупреждениями. Мы используем набор патчей vmware-tool для облегчения установки.

Далее смонтируйте ISO с инструментами VMware, кликнув “Install VMware Tools” (установить инструменты VMware) из соответствующего меню. Как только ISO с инструментами VMware подсоединится к виртуальной машине, скопируйте установщик в директорию загрузки, а затем запустите установочный скрипт:

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Подскажите пожалуста как потключить общие папки на vmware для kali linux инструменты vmware-tools установлены в самой vmware папку указал а в Kali Linux 1.1.0 в разделе /mnt пусто

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Step by Step:How to Install VMware Tools on Kali Linux

We have talked a lot about VMware Tools and benefits of running VMware tools in the VMware virtual machines. No matter, VM is running on ESXi or VMware Workstation. VMware tools are very important for VMware virtual Machine. VMware Tools Improves Video Resolution, Improves Color Depth, Improved Network adapter performance, Smooth Mouse Experience, Allow Copy and Paste, drag-and-drop the file and provides the ability to take quiesced snapshots of Guest OS. Take a look at my article to understand everything about VMware Tools version. In the previous article, We have discussed in detail about How to download and Install Kali Linux on VMware. Once Kali Linux is installed, it is very important to install VMware tools on Kali Linux. In this article, We will discuss in detail about the procedure to install VMware Tools on Kali Linux.

VMware Tools includes the below components:

1. VMware Device Drivers – Which provides the drivers for virtual hardware’s including Network adapters. Drivers provide smooth mouse operations, Improve sound, Graphic and performance of the virtual machine.

2. VMware User Process – Provides the ability to copy and paste text between VMware Remote console and Host Operating system. Improves Screen resolution.

3. VMware Services – Handles communication between the guest and host operating system.

How to Install VMware Tools on Kali Linux

In VMware Workstation, Select the Kali Linux VM and Click on “Install VMware Tools” from the VM Menu.

VMware tools ISO will be mounted to the VM and it will be displayed inside the VM. Right-click the “VMware Tools” CD image and click on Open.

Right-click “VMwareTools-XXXX.tar.gz” and click on “Extract to”

Select the Location to extract the VMware Tools ISO image and Click on Select. I have chosen /tmp directory to extract VMware tools files.

VMware tools ISO is extracted to /tmp directory

Right-click the Kali Linux desktop and Click on “Open Terminal”.

Browse towards the /tmp and CD to VMwareTools-XX.X.XX directory.

CD to the directory “vmware-tools-distrib”

Install the VMware tools on Kali Linux using the below command

Installation of VMware tools on Kali Linux is completed successfully.

Type “Reboot” to reboot the Kali Linux for the changes to take effect.

That’s it. we are done with the install VMware tools on Kali Linux. I hope this is informative for you. Thanks for Reading. Be social and share it with social media, if you feel worth sharing it.

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Installing vmware tools kali linux

Installing “Guest Tools”, gives a better user experience with VMware VMs. This is why since Kali Linux 2019.3, during the setup process it should detect if Kali Linux is inside a VM. If it is, then automatically install any additional tools (in VMware case, open-vm-tools and open-vm-tools-desktop ). The Guest Tools are also pre-installed in the Live image since Kali Linux 2021.3.

As of September 2015, VMware recommends using the distribution-specific open-vm-tools (OVT) instead of the VMware Tools package for guest machines.

Open-VM-Tools

Should you decide to create your own VMware installation of Kali Linux (rather than using our pre-made VMware images), and you want to force a manual reinstall of open-vm-tools (as something has gone wrong), first make sure you are fully updated, then enter the following.

Adding Support for Shared Folders When Using OVT

Unfortunately, shared folders will not work out of the box, some additional scripts are needed. Those can be installed easily with kali-tweaks .

In the Kali Tweaks menu, select Virtualization, then Install additional packages and scripts for VMware. Congratulations, you now have two additional tools in your toolbox!

The first one is a little script to mount the VMware Shared Folders. Invoke it with:

And with a bit of luck, checking /mnt/hgfs/ you should see your shared folders.

The second script is a helper to restart the VM tools. Indeed, it’s not uncommon for OVT to stops functioning correctly (e.g. such as copy/paste between the host OS and guest VM stops working). In this case, running this script can help to fix the issues:

For older versions of Kali Linux, here is our previous guide.

Updated on: 2021-Sep-27
Author: g0tmi1k

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Installing vmware tools kali linux

You can install VMware workstation or player on Kali Linux, allowing you to use Virtual Machines (VMs) inside of Kali Linux. However if you wish to use Kali Linux as a virtual machine, you will want our Kali Linux Guest VMware guide.

VMs are great, as there are many reasons why to use them. One of the being, able to run multiple Operating Systems at the same time. You can have your host machine “untouched”, and then only interact with the guest VMs. Another is when something is going right, take a snapshot. When something goes wrong, revert back.

VMware Workstation & Fusion is a commercial software (there is VMware Player which is free but it is limited in features). There are various free or open source solution (such as VirtualBox, QEMU, KVM/Xen with virt-manager).

Preparation

Before trying to install VMware, please make sure your version of Kali Linux is up-to-date, and if required, reboot the machine.

Download

To start with, you will need to download VMware. You can do this by going to VMware’s download page. At the time of writing, the latest version is 15.5.1-15018445 .

Alternatively, you can do the following command line method.

When everything is up-to-date, and ready to go, make sure the file is executable and then call it.

We can see we have installed VMware Workstation 15.5.1. The version number may be needed later on.

After the installer is installed, you should be able to just run vmware to continue setup.

At this point, you should be be straight forward, often just clicking through.

Setup

The first part may be VMware Kernel Modules.

If vmware wasn’t called with superuser privileges, you may be prompted for a password.

At this point, it may not install correctly, and get the error message: Unable to install all modules. See log /tmp/vmware-kali/vmware-*.log for details. (Exit code 1) . This is often due to Kali’s kernel being newer than what VMware is expecting.

Looking at the log may help with troubleshooting the issue as well as the guide at the end of this post, vmware-host-modules .

You will need to accept the legal agreement.

You may wish for it VMware to check for any updates.

You may wish to join “VMware Customer Experience Improvement Program”.

Enter the current username.

Enter a location for Shared VMs (this is different to each users own VMs).

Enter a port for HTTPS access

If you have a product key, you can enter it now, else it will be a trial for 30 days.

You may be once again prompt for superuser privileges if you didn’t execute the setup file with it.

The final screen should look like this.

If you now wish, you are able to install Kali Linux in a VMware VM (on Kali Linux).

Troubleshooting

libaio missing

If you see the following problem, upon trying to run vmware .

Try installing the libaio1 package.

Then the next time you start vmware , it should of gone away.

Missing Packages

From time to time, things may not go right. There could be a number of reasons why VMware may not install. The first thing to check would be you have all the necessary packages installed.

Try running vmware again, and see if now setup continues.

Too Newer Kernel

A common issue is because the setup file for VMware isn’t supporting the latest kernels, which could be an issue as Kali Linux is a rolling distribution and receives frequent updates. If this is the case, we can patch VMware modules to support this.

Try now to install VMware, by doing vmware.

If you are still having issues, you may need to restart your Kali Linux before trying one more final time.

vmware-host-modules + Kernel Updates

As VMware has various kernel modules, we need to make sure they are kept up-to-date and re-patched when Kali Linux’s kernel gets updated. This can be achieved by the steps in the following guide.

Still can’t start up VMware? vmware-modconfi

If VMware is unsuccessful, we can dig a little further by running the following.

Looking at the output, may either give us the exact issue, or at the very least something to search the Internet for.

Can’t Power on a Virtual Machine

You may also face the following issues, when trying to power on a VM.

• Failed to initialize monitor device
• Could not open /dev/vmmon: No such file or directory. Please make sure that kernel module ‘vmmon’ is loaded
• Unable to change virtual machine power state: Transport (VMDB) error -14: Pipe connection has been broken.

The quickest solution to fix these would be to reboot Kali Linux and try again.

Updated on: 2021-Sep-27
Author: g0tmi1k

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How to Install VMware Tools in Kali Linux

Last Updated on May 6, 2020 by Kalitut 8 Comments

In this tutorial, we will learn How to install vmware tools in kali linux.
There are many articles teach you how to install Open-VM-Tools but not the official VMware tools.

If you use Kali Linux and want to run it in a virtual machine environment as a guest system, you may have some problems. Therefore, it is recommended for better usage of Kali Linux to install vmware tools in the virtual machine.

This guide will help you install VM Tools for each installation. Kali Linux (including bit 64).

But first What is VMware Tools?
VMware Tools is a set of utilities that improves the interaction of the virtual machine and the cloud platform, increases the performance of the operating system in the virtual machine, and also improves the management functions of the virtual machine.

With VMware Tools, you will be able to copy file’s and text between guest and host and your screen size will be auto resized
That’s what the most are looking for and here we will help you to make it work.
you will be able to drag and drop operations
Plus it will enhance the performance of the virtual machine’s guest operating system and improves the management of the virtual machine.

Step 1
you should always update & upgrade before trying to install any new software or tools, to do so type those commands in your terminal

and you may need to add sudo at begining so it will be

Step 2
After we have done the update and upgrade step now it’s time to install Kali Linux headers
Type this command in terminal :

in some cases, you can install the VMware tools without even installing the Linux headers and that was my case but to make sure thing will work fine without any problem you should install the Linux headers

Step 3
In the VM Menu of the VMware Workstation, Click Install VMware Tools.
This will mount a virtual CD-ROM drive containing the VMware Tools installation files.

Step 4
Click Open With Files on the pop-up menu inside Kali Linux copy the file
VMwareTools-9.9.3-2759765.tar.gz to your guest Desktop

Click Open With Files on the pop-up menu inside Kali Linux copy the file
VMwareTools-9.9.3-2759765.tar.gz to your guest Desktop

Step 5
open terminal and type those commands

make sure the .tar.gz file have the same name as you type it.

now it’s installing the VMware tools don’t do anything just wait till it finishes and then reboot your Guest OS

you may check this video for this tutorial

Filed Under: Kali Linux Tagged With: kali linux

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how to confirm that is installed ? i can not copy past from host to guest but i can the other way

Walid Salame says

Try to drag and drop into the guest
it should work that way , then start to try copying normally

I have a rather stupid problem …. I have a vmware machine that was moto 1.0, and I upgraded to 2.0 rolling. Now I want to install the tools, and I am stymied at every turn. I cannot log in as a guest. Should I add a guest user and password in the root terminal?

Walid Salame says

there is nothing stupid my friend, there is something we dont know and we want to learn , only smart ppl try to learn 🙂
anyway if you want to install the tools why would you try to install it when you login as a guest ? you need to be in root to do that
and if you want a guest user yes you should add it that way

I install the tools correctly but it dont work
I use kali 0.2 debian 7

Walid Salame says

try to drag and drop the file from host to guest

ok well i can do that but only the other way arround – guest-host

same problem!! but it’s still not working… ;((

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