Usnig the virtual image is a good alternative to using a live CD. Here we will be covering how to install Kali Linux on VMware Workstation, but many of the steps will be valid for VMware Player and for VMware Fusion which are VMware’s other desktop hypervisors. Installing Kali on VMware is made easy, due to there being an official Kali VMware machine available for download. The current version which I am using for this tutorial is Kali 2020.4, which is a 2.4 GB download in the form of a. 7z file (for which you may need 7-zip to extract the contents). Interestingly, the contents of the download is a set of virtual machine files, rather than the a OVA or OVF file.
The contents of the archive I downloaded looks like this:Īnd that’s it! We now have a working Kali VMware virtual machine using VMware Workstation. Typically when you create a VMware virtual machine you will want to ensure the VMtools package is installed and working correctly. Rvice - Service for virtual machines hosted on VMware.We can confirm VMware Tools is running correctly on Kali by opening a terminal window and checking the service using systemctl: $ systemctl status open-vm-tools As it happens, we don’t have to do anything with our Kali Linux VMware Install because the Kali VM already comes with Open VMtools installed.
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