Kali 1.09a x86 guest installed (40gb)
Windows 8 x64 host
VMware workstation 10 /VMware player 6

1st try was by the numbers following the instructions here..
Code:
http://docs.kali.org/downloading/live-build-a-custom-kali-iso
5 failed attempts there after following various threads here and elsewhere.

This is how I proceeded this last attempt;

Edited kali source lst:

Code:
deb [arch=i386,amd64,armel,armhf] http://http.kali.org/kali kali main contrib non-free
deb [arch=i386,amd64,armel,armhf] http://http.kali.org/kali kali main/debian-installer
deb-src http://http.kali.org/kali kali main contrib non-free

deb [arch=i386,amd64,armel,armhf] http://security.kali.org/kali-security kali/updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://security.kali.org/kali-security kali/updates main contrib non-free
(editing kali source lst finally allowed me past step one of the instructions)
I would get this:
root@kali:~# apt-get install git live-build cdebootstrap
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package live-build is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Package 'live-build' has no installation candidate
E: Unable to locate package cdebootstrap

The began following the Live Build a Custom Kali ISO instructions

apt-get update
apt-get install git live-build cdebootstrap kali-archive-keyring
git clone git://git.kali.org/live-build-config.git
cd live-build-config
lb config

Edited config/package-lists/kali.list.chroot as so...

# kali meta-package depends on everything we want
kali-linux-full
kali-root-login
kali-defaults
kali-menu
kali-debtags
kali-archive-keyring
debian-installer-launcher
alsa-tools
cryptsetup

# provide l10n for everybody
locales-all
console-setup
kbd
console-data
console-common

#if ARCHITECTURES armel armhf
cgpt
vboot-utils
vboot-kernel-utils
#endif

#if ARCHITECTURES i386 amd64
firmware-b43legacy-installer
firmware-b43-installer
guymager
#endif

# Graphical desktops depending on the architecture
#
# You can replace all the remaining lines with a list of the
# packages required to install your preferred graphical desktop
# or you can just comment everything except the package of your
# preferred desktop.

# *** KDE DESKTOP ***
kali-defaults
kali-root-login
desktop-base
kde-plasma-desktop
kde-full
kdm
wicd-kde

lb config --architecture i386

lb build

here is the end of the terminal output;

[2015-01-02 13:06:43] lb binary_linux-image
P: Begin install linux-image...
[2015-01-02 13:06:44] lb binary_memtest
[2015-01-02 13:06:44] lb binary_grub
[2015-01-02 13:06:44] lb binary_grub2
[2015-01-02 13:06:45] lb binary_syslinux
P: Begin installing syslinux...
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
Package isolinux is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source

E: Package 'isolinux' has no installation candidate
P: Begin unmounting filesystems...
P: Saving caches...
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...

Full terminal output here...
Code:
http://pastebin.de/2104
what i ended up with....

root@kali:~/live-build-config# ls -hs
total 45M
4.0K README 4.0K build_all.sh 68K chroot.packages.install 68K live-image-i386.packages
4.0K auto 4.0K cache 68K chroot.packages.live 4.0K local
4.0K binary 4.0K chroot 4.0K config
1016K binary.log 22M chroot.files 22M live-image-i386.files
root@kali:~/live-build-config#


I appreciate any input,thank you