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Thread: Resolution, VMware Tools and network connection

  1. #1
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    Resolution, VMware Tools and network connection

    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


    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!

  2. #2
    Did you follow the docs: http://docs.kali.org/general-use/ins...ols-kali-guest, which gets you use to 'https://github.com/rasa/vmware-tools-patches.git' to patch before installing?
    This is a Kali-Linux support forum - not general IT/infosec help.

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  3. #3
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    Yup. About resolution - I worked it out. But still - I can't use unity for some reason.

  4. #4
    how did u fix the resolution thing? cause i have the same problem :/

  5. #5
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    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..

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