How to install VMware tools on Kali Linux

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In previous post i teach you how to install Kali Linux on your computer. We install it on VMware virtual machine and now in this post i'm gonna show you how to install VMware tools on it. That's very important thing, is the same you install drivers on your computer, video card driver for example.

But before you start this process make sure you already installed Kernel headers in Kali.
1. Open VMware and run Kali linux, and after its turned on, now on tab of Kali right click on that and choose Install VMware tools.


2. And you can see on desktop new file, disk icon. Which called as  VMware tools. Open it.
3. Now you can see VMware tools .tar.gz format file look like zip archive, copy that and paste to the Home location from left side.
4. And after that open terminal, type in ls and hit enter.
5. And you can see the name of that archive you just copied to the Home directory, copy name of that file and now type in tar zxvf VMwareTools-9.6.1-1378637.tar.gz and hit enter ( Name of that file VMwareTools-9.6.1-1378637.tar.gz ).
6. After that again type ls and after that type in cd vmware-tools-distrib and hit enter.
7. Now again type ls and after that ./vmware-install.pl and hit enter, now its start asking install some settings all time press enter, after its finished you need to restart Kali Linux.
That's it. The same process is for BackTrack OS. 
You already have installed VMware tools on Kali Linux.

11 comments :

  1. im not see disk image of vmware tools please help

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    1. right click on the op.system tab at top and choose install vmware tools line

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  2. Plz Help I get This Error

    root@bt:~# ls
    Desktop
    root@bt:~# tar zxvf VMwareTools-9.6.1-1378637.tar.gz
    tar: VMwareTools-9.6.1-1378637.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory
    tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
    tar: Child returned status 2
    tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors

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    1. You haven't copied it to that directory, that's why!

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  3. Where it has the disk image for VMWare Tools, when I open it there is nothing inside?!

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    1. Just open your eyes! Step 1, with screenshot, how to do that!

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  4. I did all the steps without any fails, but on step 7 Kali never asked if i wanted to install any settings. is that good or bad?

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  5. whenever i try to install it the following eror msg pops up.. what to do?
    "ls: cannot access vmware-install.pl"

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    1. Make sure you are in vmware-tools-distrib location and do not forget add ./ before vmware-install.pl

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  6. Hi...on step 5, it gives error"tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors"
    i reinstall the kali linux,,but gives same error..How to fix it?

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