Although the guest operating system can run without VMware Tools, you lose some important functionality and convenience. With the VMware Tools SVGA driver installed,VMware Workstation supports significantly faster graphics performance and package provides support required for shared folders and for drag and drop operations.
1. After Installing Kali Linux first update your system with following command as shown in the image
-apt-get install && apt-get upgrade
2. In the VM Menu of the VMware Workstation, Click Install VMware Tools as shown in the image below. This mounts a virtual CD-ROM drive containing the VMware Tools installation files
3. Click Open With Files on the pop-up menu inside Kali Linux.
4. After Clicking Open with files you will find the folder with the files as shown in the image
5. Now Copy VMwareTools-9.9.3-2759765.tar.gz to the Desktop
6. Now Open the terminal and Change directory to Desktop as shown in the image
7. Now unzip VMwareTools-9.9.3-2759765.tar.gz by following command as shown in the image
- tar -xvf VMwareTools-9.9.3-2759765.tar.gz
8. After unzipping you will find a new folder as shown in the following image
-cd vmware-tools-distrib
10. Inside the folder you will see the installation file as shown in the image
11. Now install the vmware tools with following command as shown in the above image
-perl vmware-install.pl -d
After installation is complete you will see the image as shown below
12. Now Just type Reboot to restart and you are done.
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