19Aug 2015 by SysAdminsHowto 1 Comment
How to Install Official VMware Tools in Kali Linux 2 Sana

How to Install Official VMware Tools in Kali Linux 2 Sana

Kali Linux
In this tutorial, I will show you how to install official VMware Tools in Kali Linux 2 Sana. Many articles say they show how to install VMware Tools but they show how to install Open-VM-Tools, instead of official VMware Tools. I assume you already installed Kali Linux 2 in VMware Workstation. If not, you can install Kali Linux 2 inside VMware Workstation by following the steps in How to Install Kali Linux 2 Sana in VMware Workstation 11 Step-by-Step Guide What is VMware Tools? VMware Tools is a suite of utilities that enhances the performance of the virtual machine’s guest operating system and improves management of the virtual machine. Installing VMware Tools in the guest operating system is vital. Although the guest operating system can run without VMware Tools, you lose important…
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18Aug 2015 by SysAdminsHowto 50 Comments
How to Install Kali Linux 2.0 Sana in VMware Workstation Step-by-Step Guide

How to Install Kali Linux 2.0 Sana in VMware Workstation Step-by-Step Guide

Kali Linux
This step-by-step article shows you how to install Kali Linux 2.0 in VMware Workstation step-by-step but you can also use VMware Player which is free. This tutorial also helps if you install Kali Linux 2.0 on physical hardware. In fact, Kali Linux 2.0 installation is not very hard. First of all, why Kali as a virtual machine? Because, if you are new on Kali, it is very safe to use it as virtual machine. You can easily explore Kali Linux 2.0 new features without damaging any live data on your computer. VMware workstation and VMware Player are virtualization software at the desktop level. They allow to run multiple virtual machines on a physical machine. You can visit VMware product page for more information about the latest release for VMware Workstation and VMware Player. Update: You can also watch Install Kali Linux 2…
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14Aug 2015 by SysAdminsHowto 16 Comments
How to Install VMware Workstation on Kali Linux 2.0 Sana

How to Install VMware Workstation on Kali Linux 2.0 Sana

Kali Linux
This step by step tutorial shows you how to install VMware Workstation on Kali Linux 2.0 Sana. Although this is a simple task, I faced an issue with the kernel headers when launching VMware Workstation 11. So, I decided to write this tutorial. In this article, I used VMware Workstation 11 but installation steps are the same for VMware Workstation 12 Pro, VMware Player 11 and VMware Player 12. VMware Workstation is a popular software which allows you to run multiple different virtual machines on physical hosts using the concept of Type II of hypervisors. It supports for the latest version of Windows and Linux, the latest processors and hardware. You can now create a virtual machine which supports up to 16 vCPU, 8 TB virtual disk and 64 GB memory to run the…
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