What have you tried: carried out a full install/update/upgrade
What is the error: the OS starts to slow down noticeably on the command line when attempting to move the back through the cmds written to make changes there is a lag. Eventually the whole thing becomes u responsive
What device is this on: I am using a windows desktop running VMware pro workstation
My desktop hardware is:
64GB Ram
13th gen i9-13900 2 GHZ
Running windows 11
Host machine is not so important.
Important are the settings of the guest machine.
i.e. how much memory, virtual memory, disk, processors, terminal vs GUI.
I give emulated Kali Live in VirtualBox 4 GB at least.
If it were to work without GUI mode, you could save a lot of memory.
An emulated Kali Live with GUI that has been allocated emulated disk space (VDI) can go with less memory. Probably 2 GB.
1 GB would already be crazy.
(Native I have 16 GB physical ram on this laptop, and with Kali Live, with Firefox sessions, is already occupied 5.5 GB)
We once tried to run Firefox on a VPS with Alpine Linux with 256 MB of memory assigned (VNC server installed) and it’s already failing.. (Alpine Linux is one of the most lightweight Linuxes. Alpine in Docker on Kali takes 8.3 MB when Debian takes 117 MB. Just for a comparison). Alpine Linux with 256 MB memory in terminal-only mode is enough.
Best Regards!
If you let vmware choose the settings for the Kali vm it will have been far too conservative…
In VMWare settings for guest;
allow minimum 4 GB RAM (as you have 64GB on host, could be more if you want, 8 GB good, up to 50% of physical RAM if wanted)
max of 50 % of your physical CPU core count allocated for guest (so if its an 8 core machine, allow between 2 and 4 cores for the guest)
For the hard disk, give it 20 GB for typical Kali install, and if you are using an ‘everything’ install may need as much as 80 GB.