Should you decide to create your own VMware installation of Kali Linux rather than using our pre-made VMware images, you will need to follow the instructions below in order to successfully install VMware Tools in your Kali installation. You can opt to install either open-vm-tools, or the native VMWare tools.
Installing open-vm-Tools
This is probably the easiest way to get “VMWare tools” functionality inside a kali VMWare guest.
apt-get install open-vm-tools
Installing VMware Tools in Kali
If open-vm-tools does not work for you, or if you prefer using native VMWare tools, begin by installing some packages that are required by the VMware Tools installer:
echo cups enabled >> /usr/sbin/update-rc.d
echo vmware-tools enabled >> /usr/sbin/update-rc.d
apt-get install gcc make linux-headers-$(uname -r)
ln -s /usr/src/
mkdir /mnt/vmware
mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/vmware/
cp -rf /mnt/vmware/VMwareTools* /tmp/
Then, change directory to /tmp/, extract the tarball and start the installer:
cd /tmp/
tar zxpf VMwareTools-*.tar.gz
cd vmware-tools-distrib/
./vmware-tools-install.pl
Follow the prompts for the VMware Tools installation and you are done.
Lastly, to get rid of possible VMWare service errors, edit the /etc/init.d/vmware-tools script, and at around line 876, change:
# POSIX shell uses '!' for negation during bracket expansion.
# See http://pubs.opengroup.org/
IFS=.
set -- `uname -r`
to :
# POSIX shell uses '!' for negation during bracket expansion.
# See http://pubs.opengroup.org/
IFS=.
set -- `uname -r|cut -d"-" -f1`
Once changed, proceed to restart the VMWare tool service.
Installing open-vm-Tools
This is probably the easiest way to get “VMWare tools” functionality inside a kali VMWare guest.
apt-get install open-vm-tools
Installing VMware Tools in Kali
If open-vm-tools does not work for you, or if you prefer using native VMWare tools, begin by installing some packages that are required by the VMware Tools installer:
echo cups enabled >> /usr/sbin/update-rc.d
echo vmware-tools enabled >> /usr/sbin/update-rc.d
apt-get install gcc make linux-headers-$(uname -r)
ln -s /usr/src/
mkdir /mnt/vmware
mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/vmware/
cp -rf /mnt/vmware/VMwareTools* /tmp/
Then, change directory to /tmp/, extract the tarball and start the installer:
cd /tmp/
tar zxpf VMwareTools-*.tar.gz
cd vmware-tools-distrib/
./vmware-tools-install.pl
Follow the prompts for the VMware Tools installation and you are done.
Lastly, to get rid of possible VMWare service errors, edit the /etc/init.d/vmware-tools script, and at around line 876, change:
# POSIX shell uses '!' for negation during bracket expansion.
# See http://pubs.opengroup.org/
IFS=.
set -- `uname -r`
to :
# POSIX shell uses '!' for negation during bracket expansion.
# See http://pubs.opengroup.org/
IFS=.
set -- `uname -r|cut -d"-" -f1`
Once changed, proceed to restart the VMWare tool service.
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