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endlesik
2015-08-12, 18:35
Good evening,

I have 3 problems with Kali 2.0.

1. I can't set proper resolution(which is 1920x1080). I need it mainly for unity mode, which won't work unless I set the proper resolution. Over here you can see, which resolutions are accessible for me - according to the Kali's menu
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/36191491/res.PNG

2. VMware Tools. I tried installing open-vm-tools and native ones, but none of them seems to work, by this I mean - grab'n drop, common clipboard, and probably networking(I'll write about it in a moment) and that resolution.

3. Network connection - everything works just fine, as long as I'm using the NAT connection. But I really want to use bridged connection, because of the separate IPs. About that, one thing is rather strange. Yesterday I downloaded Kali that was made especially for VMware, and after few tries, bridged connection was working just fine, until PC reboot. After this point, nothing worked. I tried nearly everything, that I could find in internet, I tried DHCP(which worked yesterday) and static etc. My router simply doesn't want to assign any new configuration to Kali (DHCPDISCOVER on eth0, and No DHCPOFFERS Received). When I tried static settings - Kali showed up in LAN list from router(with DD-WRT), but it was called " * ", and even though I couldn't even ping my router. I have no idea what could have happened. Maybe firewall from BitDefender suddenly blocked it in some way..?

Sorry for my english ... :P
Best regards!

g0tmi1k
2015-08-13, 10:09
Did you follow the docs: http://docs.kali.org/general-use/install-vmware-tools-kali-guest, which gets you use to 'https://github.com/rasa/vmware-tools-patches.git' to patch before installing?

endlesik
2015-08-13, 10:43
Yup. About resolution - I worked it out. But still - I can't use unity for some reason.

thantserpelis
2015-08-20, 20:40
how did u fix the resolution thing? cause i have the same problem :/

endlesik
2015-08-26, 20:11
I added custom resolution via cvt and xrandr commands.

cvt width height refreshrate

Example:

cvt 1680 1050 60

It gives me


# 1680x1050 59.95 Hz (CVT 1.76MA) hsync: 65.29 kHz; pclk: 146.25 MHz
Modeline "1680x1050_60.00" 146.25 1680 1784 1960 2240 1050 1053 1059 1089 -hsync +vsync

And then you need to use xrandr

xrandr --newmode "1680x1050_60.00" 146.25 1680 1784 1960 2240 1050 1053 1059 1089 -hsync +vsync

And finally

xrandr --addmode screenname 1680x1050_60.00

Screenname - you can check it by typing xrandr, it should be Virtual1 or something like that.

Still - can somebody help me with vmwaretools? Possibly - how can I completely remove/uninstall any vmware-tools and open-vmware-tools, because I tried to remove it with purge parameter etc. but I'm not sure if it cleaned everything..