Installing VMWare Tools on Kali 1.0.4

[natv]

Hello

I'm running:
Linux kali-h 3.7-trunk-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 3.7.2-0+kali8 i686 GNU/Linux

I followed these steps first to prep for the VMware Tools install:
http://forums.kali.org/showthread.ph...fix-for-vmware

1. Make sure you got these sources listed in your /etc/apt/sources.list (I had only one but not the other which was my problem)
deb http://http.kali.org/kali kali main contrib non-free
deb http://security.kali.org/kali-security kali/updates main contrib non-free

2. Only after you can update and upgrade
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade

3. Now you can successfully install the headers without getting the "package not found error". I used the following command:
apt-get install gcc make linux-headers-$(uname -r)

4. This should successfully install the headers and now you can install vmware successfully

Then I ran:
apt-get install open-vm-tools

and that seemed to have gone well (no errors). I rebooted the VM, and although I have copy/paste and shared folders enabled in the machine settings, this isn't working (no copy/paste for example)


Any ideas? I was hoping using the package manager to install would work...

When I try to install VMware tools manually I get errors like this:

Initializing...

Use of uninitialized value $subLevel in split at /usr/bin/vmware-config-tools.pl line 5399.
Use of uninitialized value $subLevel in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/bin/vmware-config-tools.pl line 5400.
Argument "7-trunk-686-pae" isn't numeric in multiplication (*) at /usr/bin/vmware-config-tools.pl line 4958.
Use of uninitialized value $subLevel in addition (+) at /usr/bin/vmware-config-tools.pl line 4958.

Thanks

[phlame64]

Was having the same issue.

apt-get install open-vm-toolbox

Then reboot and hopefully you're done.

[71m30u7]

Then I ran:
apt-get install open-vm-tools

and that seemed to have gone well (no errors). I rebooted the VM, and although I have copy/paste and shared folders enabled in the machine settings, this isn't working (no copy/paste for example)
Thanks

Hey!
I had these bug after install open-vm-tools. And only after 5! reboots it successfully work (Copy/Past Drag-and-dropp etc). I think it is VM bug. On the host (I use Windows7), from the Workstation menu bar and VM > Reinstall VMware Tools will be appear.

Cheers!

[natv]

Thank you! That did the trick.

So I assume for next time (or others having the same issue), that BOTH of these are needed:

apt-get install open-vm-tools
apt-get install open-vm-toolbox



So nice to have copy & paste working


Thanks again

[colegagliano]

Follow the instructions here: How to install VMware tools in kali