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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.

kali linux install 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

apt-get update && apt-get upgrade –y

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

sudo apt-get update && apt-get upgrade –y
kali linux install vmware tools

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 :

apt-get install -y linux-headers-$(uname -r)

or with sudo

sudo apt-get install -y linux-headers-$(uname -r)
install vmware tools kali linux

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.

install vmware tools kali linux

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

cd Desktop/
ls
tar -xf VMwareTools-9.9.3-2759765.tar.gz

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

cd vmware-tools-distrib
ls
perl vmware-install.pl –d

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xialun9yes

Filed Under: Kali Linux Tagged With: kali linux

Comments

  1. Unknown says

    March 9, 2016 at 10:02 am

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

    Reply
  2. Walid Salame says

    March 11, 2016 at 4:00 am

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

    Reply
  3. Unknown says

    March 16, 2016 at 1:55 pm

    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?

    Reply
  4. Walid Salame says

    March 17, 2016 at 4:25 am

    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

    Reply
  5. Unknown says

    April 1, 2016 at 8:47 am

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

    Reply
  6. Walid Salame says

    April 1, 2016 at 1:14 pm

    try to drag and drop the file from host to guest

    Reply
  7. Unknown says

    April 2, 2016 at 9:17 am

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

    Reply
  8. Unknown says

    September 1, 2016 at 8:32 pm

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

    Reply

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